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currying, vbl. n.|ˈkʌrɪɪŋ|
[f. curry v.1]
1. The action of rubbing down with a curry-comb.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 120 In curriyng of them we must begin at the head and the necke. 1634Heywood & 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.
b. Comb. currying-glove, a glove with a rough surface used for currying horses.
2. The process of dressing tanned hides.
1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 198 To Cordener for coreyyng of a barkyd hyde iiij. d. 1532–3Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 1 An acte concernynge true tanninge and coriynge of lether. 1870Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 295 Tanned leather often undergoes the further operation of currying.
b. fig. Drubbing, thrashing.
1807W. Irving Salmagundi (1824) 6 Nor will the gentlemen..escape our currying. |