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Curb :: Curb (v. t.) To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check..

Limit :: Limit (v. t.) A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.

Curb :: Curb (v. t.) To bend or curv.

Curb :: Curb (n.) A curbstone.

Kerbstone :: Kerbstone (n.) See Curbstone.

Curb :: Curb (n.) That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse..

Check :: Check (v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.

Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb..

Snaffle :: Snaffle (n.) A kind of bridle bit, having a joint in the part to be placed in the mouth, and rings and cheek pieces at the ends, but having no curb; -- called also snaffle bit..

Rope :: Rope (v. t.) To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing..

Rein :: Rein (n.) Hence, an instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing; government; restraint..

Cucurbitaceous :: Cucurbitaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples..

Deckle :: Deckle (n.) A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper..

Curbstone :: Curbstone (n.) A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone..

Collar :: Collar (n.) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft..

Curb :: Curb (n.) A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in..

Squashed :: Squash (n.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind..

Bit :: Bit (v.) Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.

Overslow :: Overslow (v. t.) To render slow; to check; to curb.

Bridoon :: Bridoon (n.) The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein..

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