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Definition of Courbing
1. courb [v] - See also: courb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Courbing
Literary usage of Courbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Robert Greene by John Clark Jordan (1915)
"... Foist (who steals with his hand), the Lifting Law (larceny), the courbing
Law (hooking linen out of windows), and the Blacke Arte (picking of locks). ..."
2. Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century by Joel Elias Spingarn (1908)
"... hauing conspired to 5 binde Iupiter, Pallas called Briareus with his hundreth
hands to his aide, expounded, that Monarchies neede not feare any courbing ..."
3. Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century by Joel Elias Spingarn (1908)
"... Pallas called Briareus with his hundreth hands to his aide, expounded, that
Monarchies neede not feare any courbing of their ..."
4. British Dogs, Their Points, Selection, and Show Preparation by William D. Drury (1903)
"... were equal to the task of courbing and pulling down a cold (1.e. unwounded)
stag, it seems reasonable to infer that a larger dog could hardly be ..."
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