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 curbthy warm desires.
--Prior.
3. To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a
curb, as a bank of earth.