Definitions for curbs

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curbs curb

Spelling: [kurb]

IPA: /kɜrb/

Curbs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in curbs (bcrsu).

Definitions for curbs

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 curbs

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 curbs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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