Etymology

horse-comb

Today it means: A comb used by horse groomers for combing the mane and tail of horses. Full definition →

Middle English horscomb ← Old English horscamb
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  1. Old English · inherited fromhorscamb“horse-comb, curry-comb”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromhorscomb
  3. English todayhorse-comb

From Middle English horscomb, horsecombe, horskame, horskambe, from Old English horscamb (“horse-comb, curry-comb”), equivalent to horse + comb.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.