curbing
邊石,邊石的材料
Curb v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curbed p. pr. & vb. n. Curbing.]
1. To bend or curve. [Obs.]
Crooked and curbed lines. --Holland.
2. 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.
Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed. --Milton.
Where pinching want must curb thy warm desires. --Prior.
3. To furnish with a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
curbing
n : an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a
line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)
[syn: curb, kerb]