What does the word combing mean?
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Usage examples for combing
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He
was
always
small-
featured
and
smooth-
shaved,
and
I
don'
know
as,
to
come
in
sudden,
you
would
have
thought
he
was
a
man,
except
his
hair
stood
up
short
and
straight
all
on
the
top
of
his
head,
as
men-
folks
had
a
fashion
o'
combing
their
hair
then,
and
I
must
say
he
did
make
a
dreadful
ordinary-
looking
woman.
– Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett
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And
then
he
adds:
I
would
have
given
something
to
see
a
ragged
fence,
or
an
old
stump,
or
a
bit
of
rock,
or
even
a
stone
as
big
as
one's
fist,
to
show
that
man's
hand
had
not
been
combing
Nature's
head
so
vigorously.
– William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck