† ˈkembing, vbl. n. Obs.
[f. kemb v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb kemb; combing.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 270/2 Kemynge of here, or wulle, pectinacio. 1508 Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 182 He is..Alse curtly of his clething, and kemmyng of his hair. 1547 Boorde Brev. Health cxxxiii. 49 After keymyng of the head. 1634 Peacham Gentl. Exerc. i. xxiii. 74 Haire worthy the kembing. |
2. Comb., as kembing-claith, Sc., combing-cloth; kembing-stock, the stock or frame on which the combs were fixed for dressing wool, rippling lint, and breaking flax.
| 1418 Bury Wills (Camden) 3, j par de wollecombes j kembyngstok. 1533 in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 155 A payre of woll combes with a kemynge stoke. a 1568 Wyf of Auchterm. 84 in Laing Anc. Poet. Scot. 340 He fell back⁓ward into the fyre, And brack his head on the keming stock. 1578 Inv. in Hunter Biggar & House of Fleming xxvi. (1862) 332 Ane kame caiss & ane auld kimi[n]g clayth about ye same. a 1776 Country Wedding in Herd Coll. Sc. Songs II. 89 A keam but and a keaming-stock. |