vbl. sb. Obs. [f. KEMB v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the verb KEMB; combing.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 270/2. Kemynge of here, or wulle, poctinacio.
1508. Dunbar, Tua Mariit Wemen, 182. He is … Alse curtly of his clething, and kemmyng of his hair.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, cxxxiii. 49. After keymyng of the head.
1634. Peacham, Gentl. Exerc., I. xxiii. 74. Haire worthy the kembing.
2. Comb., as kembing-claith, Sc., combing-cloth; kembing-stock, the stock or frame on which the combs were fixed for dressing wool, rippling lint, and breaking flax.
1418. Bury Wills (Camden), 3. j par de wollecombes j kembyngstok.
1533. in Weaver, Wells Wills (1890), 155. A payre of woll combes with a kemynge stoke.
a. 1568. Wyf of Awchtirmwchty, 84, in Laing, Anc. Poet. Scot., 340. He fell backward into the fyre, And brack his head on the keming stock.
1578. Inv., in Hunter, Biggar & House of Fleming, xxvi. (1862), 332. Ane kame caiss & ane auld kimi[n]g clayth about ye same.
c. 1776. Country Wedding, in Herd, Coll. Sc. Songs, II. 89. A keam but and a keaming-stock.
