fine comb

¹

noun

1. a fine-tooth comb.

fine-comb

²

[ fahyn-kohm ]

verb (used with object)

1. to use a fine-tooth comb on.
2. to search through thoroughly.

Example Sentences

The head should be thoroughly washed, every day, and then brushed with a soft hair-brush, or combed with a fine comb.

From Project Gutenberg

Notice that the fine comb is removing the short fibers and leaving the long fibers between the fingers.

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A fine comb will further straighten the hairs, but it will also remove the snarled, tangled, short hairs.

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Follow the gilling by the operation of combing, which you will do by combing again, this time with a fine comb.

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And releasing it from the clamp, he took down a fine comb from a nail, and repeated the process.

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Related Words

• comb
• scour
• scrape