kerb

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kerb, gutter and storm drain

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Etymology

From curb (raised border or frame) . Doublet of curve.

Pronunciation

Noun

kerb (plural kerbs)

  1. (British, Australia, New Zealand) The raised edge between the pavement and the roadway, typically made of concrete though originally consisting of a line of kerbstones.
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164:
      Mobile starting-gates and horse-boxes stand parked along the kerbs, and behind every large house, it seems, is a red brick stableyard, gleaming with fresh black-and-white paint and polished steel.
  2. A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb.
  3. Alternative form of curb (raised margin along the edge of a well, etc.).

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Verb

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

  1. (British, 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.
    • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35:
      I was fidgeting a bit, because three dogs were sniffing at my ankles in an interested fashion. They were going out to be kerbed

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Noun

kerb f

  1. hatred