kerbing

Silverstone made a profit of only £662,000 last year and that is a surplus which could be wiped off the balance sheet at a stroke, should the FIA, motor sport's governing body, require improvements to the Northamptonshire circuit - such as kerbing or wider run-off areas - in the interests of safety.

The Guardian World News 2009

Unable to avoid the moment, Prost locked wheels with Gerhard Bergers Benetton before becoming airborne briefly and crashing nose-first on to the kerbing on the outside of the corner.

Chequered Conflict Maurice Hamilton 2008

He knew they had chucked a kerbing slab off a motorway bridge that resulted in the death of a taxi driver during the strike - yet still chose to protect them.

The Politically Incorrect Kim Howells 2006

Everything, you see, had been made to fit their needs; each of the radiating paths of the valley area had a constant angle to the others, and was distinguished by a special notch upon its kerbing; all obstacles and irregularities of path or meadow had long since been cleared away; all their methods and procedure arose naturally from their special needs.

The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

Everything, you see, had been made to fit their needs; each of the radiating paths of the valley area had a constant angle to the others, and was distinguished by a special notch upon its kerbing; all obstacles and irregularities of path or meadow had long since been cleared away; all their methods and procedure arose naturally from their special needs.

The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories Herbert George 1911

Such humble furniture as there may once have been and much of the lower weather-boarding, had served as fuel in the camp fires of hunters; as had also, prob - ably, the kerbing of an old well, which at the time I write of existed in the form of a rather wide but not very deep depression near by.

Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

Everything, you see, had been made to fit their needs; each of the radiating paths of the valley area had a constant angle to the others, and was distinguished by a special notch upon its kerbing; all obstacles and irregularities of path or meadow had long since been cleared away; all their methods and procedure arose naturally from their special needs.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

Everything, you see, had been made to fit their needs; each of the radiating paths of the valley area had a constant angle to the others, and was distinguished by a special notch upon its kerbing; all obstacles and irregularities of path or meadow had long since been cleared away; all their methods and procedure arose naturally from their special needs.

The Door in the Wall and Other Stories 1906

His attempt, aided by a walking-stick used as a balancing-pole, to keep his equilibrium on six inches of kerbing, might have been funny to a less sensitive soul than Oliva's.

The Green Rust Edgar Wallace 1903

One dark, gusty evening, Harry Chatswood's coach dragged, heavily though passengerless, into Cunnamulla, and, as he turned into the yard of the local "Royal," he saw Mac's tilted four-wheeler (which he called his "van") drawn up opposite by the kerbing round the post office.

The Rising of the Court Henry Lawson 1894