Meaning

noun a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair

noun the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds

noun any of several tools for straightening fibers

originFrom Middle English comb, from Old English camb (“comb”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz (“comb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth”), a doublet of cam. The verb is derived from the noun and displaced the older verb kemb. Cognates Compare Saterland Frisian Koum, Swedish/Dutch kam, Danish kam, Norwegian kam, German Kamm; also Tocharian B keme, Lithuanian…

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