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Grebenski Cossacks
So called from the word greben (a comb).
This title was conferred upon them by Czar Ivan I., because, in his
campaign against the Tartars of the Caucasus, they scaled a mountain
fortified with sharp spurs, sloping down from its summit, and
projecting horizontally, like a comb (Duncan: Russia.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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