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noun
1.
a rim, especially of joined stones or concrete, along a street or roadway, forming an edge for a sidewalk.
2.
anything that restrains or controls; a restraint; check.
3.
an enclosing framework or border.
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5.
EXPANDAlso called curb market; British, kerb market, kerbstone market. a market, originally on the sidewalk or street, for the sale of securities not listed on a stock exchange. Compare American Stock Exchange.
6.
the framework around the top of a well.
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the arris between an upper and a lower slope on a gambrel or mansard roof.
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a belt of metal, masonry, etc., for abutting a dome at its base.
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(in a windmill) the track on which the cap turns.
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Veterinary Pathology. a swelling on the lower part of the back of the hock of a horse, often causing lameness.
11.
Engineering. the cutting edge at the bottom of a caisson.
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COLLAPSECarpentry. purlin plate.
verb (used with object)
13.
to control as with a curb; restrain; check.
14.
to cause to keep near the curb: Curb your dog.
15.
to furnish with or protect by a curb.
16.
to put a curb on (a horse).
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Curbed
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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English curb, courbe curved piece of wood (noun), stooped, hunchbacked (adj.) < Anglo-French curb, courb curved, bowed; Old French < Latin curvus crooked, bent, curved. See curve
1250–1300; Middle English curb, courbe curved piece of wood (noun), stooped, hunchbacked (adj.) < Anglo-French curb, courb curved, bowed; Old French < Latin curvus crooked, bent, curved. See curve
Related forms
curb·a·ble, adjective
curb·less, adjective
curb·like, adjective
un·curb, verb (used with object)
un·curb·a·ble, adjective
EXPANDun·curbed, adjective
COLLAPSEAntonyms
13. encourage.
13. encourage.
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Word Origin & History
curb
late 15c., "strap passing under the jaw of a horse," from O.Fr. courbe "curve, curb," from L. curvus, from curvare "to bend" (see curve). Meaning "enclosed framework" is from 1510s, probably originally with a notion of "curved;" extended to margins of garden beds 1731; to
EXPAND "margin of stone between a sidewalk and road" 1836 (sometimes spelled kerb). The verb (1520s) is from the notion of putting a curb on a horse; fig. sense first attested 1580s.
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