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# currycomb

«currycomb» in Mova's school dictionary: **A metal comb with rows of teeth, used to clean and brush…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (currycombs); verb (currycombs, currycombed, currycombing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A metal comb with rows of teeth, used to clean and brush a horse's coat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currycomb/#m1)

2) To currycomb a horse is to brush it with such a comb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currycomb/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in farm and stable tales, a groom cleans a horse's coat with a currycomb till it shines

### examples

- The groom used a currycomb on the pony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currycomb/#x1)
- Brush the horse with the currycomb, then with a soft brush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currycomb/#x2)
- He currycombed the mare until she shone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currycomb/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «currycomb» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currycomb/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.