kerb

See also: Kerb

English

From curb (“raised border or frame”) [from mid-17th c.]. Doublet of curve.

kerb (plural kerbs)

(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The raised edge between the pavement and the roadway, typically made of concrete though originally consisting of a line of kerbstones.
A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb.
Alternative form of curb (“raised margin along the edge of a well, etc.”)

edge between pavement and roadway

Belarusian: бардзю́р m (bardzjúr)
Bulgarian: бордю́р (bg) m (bordjúr)
Catalan: vorada f, rastell (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 路緣／路缘 (zh) (lùyuán)
Czech: obrubník (cs) m
Danish: kantsten c
Dutch: stoeprand (nl), borduur (nl)
Faroese: kantsteinur m
Finnish: reunakiveys (fi), jalkakäytävän reuna, reunakivi (fi)
French: bordure (fr) f, bordure du trottoir f
Galician: bordo (gl) m
Georgian: ბორდიური (bordiuri)
German: Bordstein (de) m, Randstein (de) m, Bordkante f, Kantstein (de) m, Kante (de) f, Steinrand m
Hungarian: járdaszegély (hu)
Indonesian: kanstin
Irish: colbha m
Italian: orlo del marciapiede m
Japanese: 縁石 (ja) (えんせき, enseki, ふちいし, fuchiishi, へりいし, heriishi)
Korean: 연석(緣石) (ko) (yeonseok), 갓돌 (gatdol)
Latin: crepīdō f
Macedonian: раб m (rab)
Malay: bebendul
Maori: tapa rori, paeara
Persian: جدول‎ (fa) (jadval)
Polish: krawężnik (pl) m
Portuguese: guia (pt) f, meio-fio (pt) m, lancil (pt) m
Romanian: bordură (ro) f
Russian: бордю́р (ru) m (bordjúr), поре́брик (ru) m (porébrik) (regional, rare)
Scottish Gaelic: oir chabhsair f
Serbo-Croatian: rubnik (sh), ivičnjak (sh) m
Slovak: obrubník m
Slovene: robnik m
Spanish: bordillo (es) m
Swedish: trottoarkant (sv) c
Ukrainian: бордю́р (uk) m (bordjúr), бро́вка (uk) f (bróvka), брі́вка (uk) f (brívka)
Welsh: ymyl palmant m, ymyl pafin m

kerb (third-person singular simple present kerbs, present participle kerbing, simple past and past participle kerbed)

(Britain, transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb.
To take a dog to the kerb for the purpose of evacuating.
- 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35:
  I was fidgeting a bit, because three dogs were sniffing at my ankles in an interested fashion. They were going out to be kerbed[.]

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