Definitions
place restrictions on
Word origin
From Middle French courbe (“curve, curved object”), from Latin curvus (“bent, crooked, curved”). Doublet of curve.
Used in a sentence
“Even by theſe Men, Religion, that ſhould be / The curb, is made the ſpur to tyranny: / They with their double key of conſcience bind / The Subjects ſouls, and leave Kings unconfin'd; […]”
“The same also is that burning mention’d by S. Paul, whereof mariage ought to be the remedy; the Flesh hath other naturall and easie curbs which are in the power of any temperate man..”
“He that before ran in the pastures wild / Felt the stiff curb controul his angry jaws.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Restrain”4 letters
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