Word Meaning

Meaning of "combs" and the crossword clue

- Crest of a cock
- Device for untangling hair
- Dress hair
- Get knots out of hairdresser’s equipment
- Grooming device
- Hair styling tool
- It parts hair
- Item for styling the hair
- Rigid toothed device
- Rooster's crest
- Rooster’s crest
- Search thoroughly
- Search through
- toothed hair fastener
- Toothed hairfastener
- Birds' crests
- Fleshy red crests of fowls
- Grooming devices
- Rigid toothed devices
- Roosters' red crests
- Searches every inch for tools with teeth
- Searches inch for tools with teeth
- Searches methodically
- Toothed hairfasteners
- An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
- An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
- A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
- The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
- A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
- The curling crest of a wave.
- The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
- The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
- To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing.
- To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- Alt. of Combe
- A dry measure. See Coomb.