curb
IPA: kˈɝb
noun
- (American spelling, Canadian spelling) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
- A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
- Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
- A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
- (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
- A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
verb
- (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
- (transitive) To rein in.
- (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
- (transitive) To bring to a stop beside a curb.
- (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
- (transitive) To bend or curve.
- (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.
- (transitive, slang) Ellipsis of curb stomp. [To stomp on someone's head, forcing it into a street curb (often while they are positioned with their teeth biting the curb).]
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Examples of "curb" in Sentences
- The two began arguing at the curb.
- The policy was to curb the high demand for cigarettes.
- She sits resignedly on a curb at the mortuary's car park.
- The tower is diameter at the base and diameter at the curb.
- Roger went and got what he called a curb-bit, and almost in
- The smock was across the flats at the base, and at the curb.
- It may have a salutary effect to curb this kind of behaviour.
- Curbing the pain may delay vomiting, and prolong the headache.
- The curb chain is attached to the rings at the end of the cheek.
- The mill is diameter at the base and to the curb, and high overall.
- He curbed the offensive style of the team and reinforced the defensive.
- Kicking Charlie Crist to the curb is the dumbest move the GOP has made.
- Each grout line in between tiles on a curb is a place for water to penetrate.
- I am tempted to run outside, tap the window and shout, Sir, the curb is secure!
- When a curb is replaced to allow wheelchair access, whatever name that was on the original curb is retained, even if that name has long been changed.
- Far below, to our right (for we were upon the Smith-town side) we heard the rushing of the river, whose rapid waters never receive curb from the iron chain of winter.
- Peter confirms his exhortation, 1Pe 3: 9, by Ps 34: 12-16. refrain -- curb, literally, "cause to cease"; implying that our natural inclination and custom is to speak evil.
- The Glenn name survives only in curb markings on scattered corners where progress has not yet arrived in the form of cutouts for the disabled and other wheeled sidewalk users:
- The capacity of the lane next to the curb is much lower even when parking and stopping are strictly prohibited, and 350 vehicles per lane per hour is frequently used as its maximum possible peak hour capacity.
- Perhaps you will do him justice if you agree that the being who tries to free himself from his lawful curb is represented as very wretched indeed, and the heart that rebels against the decrees of its destiny as in sore distress.
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