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Definition of Kerbs
1. kerb [v] - See also: kerb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kerbs
Literary usage of Kerbs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors by Thomas Aitken (1900)
"The materials used for forming kerbs are of various descriptions, but, for first-class
... Granite, syenite, or whinstone kerbs are made in various sizes; ..."
2. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1851)
"kerbs declaring their pro perties, and how you are to hear them when they thank
the Creator for the virtues wit! which he has endued them. ..."
3. Road and Footpath Construction: Macadamised Roads, Stone, Wood, and Asphalt by Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1904)
"This, in some cases, has led to the use of iron kerbs, which, however, wear very
slippery. Fig. 13 shows a section of a cast-iron kerb R, provided with a ..."
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