combing Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of drawing a comb through hair
    comb.
    • his hair needed a comb
  2. verb straighten with a comb
    comb.
    • comb your hair
  3. verb search thoroughly
    comb; ransack.
    • They combed the area for the missing child
  4. verb smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
    comb; comb out; disentangle.
    • comb your hair before dinner
    • comb the wool

WordNet

Comb"ing noun
Definitions
  1. The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool. ✍ The process of combing is used in straightening wool of long staple; short wool is carded.
  2. pl. (a) That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair. (b) Hair arranged to be worn on the head.
    The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings. Jer. Taylor.
    (c) (Naut.) See Coamings.

Webster 1913