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View synonyms for fine comb

fine comb

1

noun

  1. a fine-tooth comb.


fine-comb

2

[ fahyn-kohm ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to use a fine-tooth comb on.
  2. to search through thoroughly.

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Example Sentences

The head should be thoroughly washed, every day, and then brushed with a soft hair-brush, or combed with a fine comb.

Notice that the fine comb is removing the short fibers and leaving the long fibers between the fingers.

A fine comb will further straighten the hairs, but it will also remove the snarled, tangled, short hairs.

Follow the gilling by the operation of combing, which you will do by combing again, this time with a fine comb.

And releasing it from the clamp, he took down a fine comb from a nail, and repeated the process.

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