Crossword clues for curbing
curbing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curb \Curb\ (k[^u]rb), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curbed (k[^u]rbd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curbing.] [F. courber to bend, curve, L.curvare, fr. curvus bent, curved; cf. Gr. kyrto`s curved. Cf. Curve.]
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To bend or curve. [Obs.]
Crooked and curbed lines.
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To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check.
Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed.
--Milton.Where pinching want must curb thy warm desires.
--Prior. To furnish with a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A row of curbstones; the material used to construct such a curb 2 The damage caused to a wheel or tire by curbing (running the wheel or tire into or over a curb). vb. (present participle of curb English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "curbing".
It had to be spaded and forked deep, to accommodate their detritus of dead bummers, and then firmed flat again before the curbing could be heaped up around it.
Brutus stepped delicately over the curbing into the ring, raised her trunk and one knee, and Abdullah did his lithe descent of her, from neck to trunk to knee to ground, bringing the drum with him.
Clover Lee was suddenly present, to take the dapple's reins and lead it aside, while Hotspur neatly jumped the white over the curbing and inside the ring.
Florian and the captain gingerly lifted the old lady over the curbing onto Snowball.
The two center poles stood four feet away from the curbing on either side, leaving ample room for the come-in and the closing specs to parade around the outside of the ring.
The white-face next sent him across the pista, to trip over the curbing and fall flat on his face (r-r-rip!
Outside the pista curbing, the Quakemaker grunted and heaved at some new strongman equipment he was preparing to introduce into his act.
The artistes, the pista curbing, the band, whatever rigs and props do not require elaborate handling.
Of the whole chapiteau, only the tent stakes still stood firm in the ground, outlining the immense oval where the pavilion had been, and the pista curbing in the middle of that oval had not budged.
The curbing of the pista and the perimeter of the promenade space outside it, the two center poles and the tightrope all were outlined with those points and nimbuses of light.
She was billed and announced as "The Music-Box Dancer" and performed atop the pista's padded curbing, doing several circuits of the ring, almost entirely en pointe, the way music-box dolls did, while cimbalist Elemér played, solo, a very creditable imitation of a music box tinkling one of Offenbach's barcarolles.
I managed to reply, curbing an impulse to puff my experience in such matters.
Iantine said, curbing an intense desire to shove the man's face in the thin soup he was stirring.
A sports car which had sped through the intersections, as if its driver intended to ignore the flashing red lights and sirens, turned away to avoid a collision, did not quite make it, scraped against the rear of the police car, and caromed off over the curbing, and up onto the sidewalk.
Now we stood, Sam and M and I, at the curbing of the cobbled street early in the morning.