combs

Noun

comb (plural combs)

1. A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
   • There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN
2. A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
3. The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
4. A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
5. The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
6. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.

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