currying

To cook or season with curry powder.

To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.

To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.

To beat, thrash; to drub.

To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.

To perform currying upon.

To scurry; to ride or run hastily

To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).

To hurry.

The technique of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments into a function that takes a single argument (the first of the arguments to the original function) and returns a new function that takes the remainder of the arguments and returns the result.