vbl. sb. [f. CURRY v.1]

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  1.  The action of rubbing down with a curry-comb.

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1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., III. (1586), 120. In curriyng of them we must begin at the head and the necke.

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1634.  Heywood & Brome, Lanc. Witches, IV. Wks. 1874, IV. 224. The Beast … hath cost you more the currying, then all the Combs in your Stable are worth.

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  b.  Comb. Currying-glove, a glove with a rough surface used for currying horses.

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  2.  The process of dressing tanned hides.

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1481–90.  Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.), 198. To Cordener for coreyyng of a barkyd hyde iiij. d.

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1532–3.  Act 24 Hen. VIII., c. 1. An acte concernynge true tanninge and coriynge of lether.

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1870.  Yeats, Nat. Hist. Comm., 295. Tanned leather often undergoes the further operation of currying.

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  b.  fig. Drubbing, thrashing.

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1807.  W. Irving, Salmagundi (1824), 6. Nor will the gentlemen … escape our currying.

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