Definitions for curb

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curb curb

Spelling: [kurb]

IPA: /kɜrb/

Curb is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in curb (bcru).

Definitions for curb

noun

1. Also, British, kerb. a rim, especially of joined stones or concrete, along a street or roadway, forming an edge for a sidewalk.
2. anything that restrains or controls; a restraint; check.
3. an enclosing framework or border.
4. Also called curb bit. a bit used with a bridoon for control of a horse, to which a chain (curb chain) is hooked.
5. Also called curb market; British, kerb market, kerbstone market. a market, originally on the sidewalk or street, for the sale of securities not listed on a stock exchange. Compare American Stock Exchange.
6. the framework around the top of a well.
7. the arris between an upper and a lower slope on a gambrel or mansard roof.
8. a belt of metal, masonry, etc., for abutting a dome at its base.
9. (in a windmill) the track on which the cap turns.
10. Veterinary Pathology. a swelling on the lower part of the back of the hock of a horse, often causing lameness.
11. Engineering. the cutting edge at the bottom of a caisson.
12. Carpentry. purlin plate.

verb (used with object)

1. to control as with a curb; restrain; check.
2. to cause to keep near the curb:
3. Also, British, kerb. to furnish with or protect by a curb.
4. to put a curb on (a horse).

Origin of curb

1250-1300; Middle English curb, courbe curved piece of wood (noun), stooped, hunchbacked (adj.) Anglo-French curb, courb curved, bowed; Old French Latin curvus crooked, bent, curved. See

Examples for curb

Did you feel like, with Hello Ladies, you wanted your own showcase—your own curb, so to speak?

Obeying a quick impulse, Percival stepped to the curb as she came opposite to him.

A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

And if I were denied the power, I must, as I now do, curb my inclination.

For instance, some women use it not only to curb premenstrual symptoms, but also to control when they menstruate.

“The basic aim of a democratic regime is to curb the use of arbitrary powers against its citizens,” West writes.

Yet what can I say, for all men know that your valor needs the curb and not the spur.

He had the vehicles moved to the curb outside the dealership.

The cobblestones had gone, and from curb to curb stretched smooth asphalt.

He was shot twice in the head, his body left lying on a curb.