[f. CURB v.2]

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  1.  The action of the verb CURB; checking.

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1661.  Feltham, Resolves, II. lvii. 306. The curbings and the stroaks of Adversity.

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1846.  D. King, Lord’s Supper, iv. 102. The partial curbing of vicious lusts.

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  2.  a. The furnishing of a side-walk, etc., with a curb. b. concr. The stones collectively forming a curb. (In this sense commonly spelt kerbing.)

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1869.  Daily News, 2 Feb., 3/3. The granite kerbing on the sea wall outside the viaduct was washed off.

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1892.  Times, 14 March, 3/2. No paving, curbing, or channelling has been done to … the road.

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  † 3.  Thieves’ cant. (Cf. CURBER 2.) Obs. [Perhaps a distinct word.]

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1591.  Greene, Disc. Coosnage (1859), 53. The nature of the Lift, the Black art, and the Curbing law, which is the Filchers and theeves that come into houses … or picklocks, or hookers at windowes.

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