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kirb

kirb is the obsolete form of kerb.

Meaning of kerb

Verb

kerb (third-person singular simple present kerbs, present participle kerbing, simple past and past participle kerbed)

  1. (UK, transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb.
  2. To take a dog to the kerb for the purpose of evacuating their bowels.
    • I was fidgeting a bit, because three dogs were sniffing at my ankles in an interested fashion. They were going out to be kerbed[.]1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35

Forms of kirb

pluralkirbs

Questions about kirb

What is kirb the obsolete form of?
Kirb is the obsolete form of kerb.

Words near kirb in the dictionary

  1. kiras
  2. kirat
  3. Kirati
  4. Kiratism
  5. kirats
  6. kirb
  7. Kirban
  8. kirbee
  9. kirbeh
  10. kirbehs
  11. kirbigrip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kirb (page history and authors); kerb (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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