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Definition of Kembing
1. kemb [v] - See also: kemb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kembing
Literary usage of Kembing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1890)
"4 ' (' kembing' substituted for ' combed. 7. ing.') 3 ('good' was afterwards
scored * ('fooleries' was afterwards scored out.) ont. ..."
2. Shakespeare Jest-books: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-books by William Carew Hazlitt (1864)
"In the morning, shee did rise betimes, and did sit by the fire kembing of her head.
At last, the man did come to the fire ; and, seeing of his wife ..."
3. The History of Wool and Woolcombing by James Burnley (1889)
"... and expences," worked out his invention, which was described as " Two instruments
of iron, to be used in the said trade of wool kembing and pressing, ..."
4. The Hair: Its Growth, Care, Diseases and Treatment by Charles Henri Leonard (1879)
"... when that at the kembing and scratching of the head, certaine white scales,
as it were branne, falleth off from the head, and lyeth very thick among and ..."
5. Early English and French Voyages: Chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534-1608 by Richard Hakluyt (1906)
"Their men for the most part goe naked; the women take a kinde of bulrushes, and
kembing it after the manner of hemp, make themselves thereof a loose garment ..."
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