currycomb


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a square comb with rows of small teeth

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clean (a horse) with a currycomb

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The blades of the currycomb slipped across Fly's back and the muscles rippled under the dark hide.
The most ordinary looking horses traveled faster than ours, or perhaps they were ordinary looking because, as I am told, the Canadians do not use the currycomb. Moreover, it is said that on the approach of winter their horses acquire an increased quantity of hair, to protect them from the cold.
By the time we'd finished, you could have gone over the place with a currycomb and not found so much as the peeling of a potato to hint that there'd ever been a spoonful of poteen concocted inside it.
(19) (Instead of teaching his disciples about Virgil and Dante, he made us take up the currycomb and play madrigals with that on the backside of one of his stallions.
After a minute of whispering The Mantra of Letting Go, Stephen heard the annoyed inspector promising to cut his 'stinking hair' and scrub him clean with a horse's currycomb.
Currycombs and "shedding" blades should have fine teeth.
Devices used to snare hair included currycombs, wire brushes, and nails (Belant 2003a, DePue and Ben-David 2006).
They also groomed Thunder by brushing him with currycombs.
was flayed by the Romans, his flesh stripped from his bones by currycombs. He was 85.