To comb one’s head; to clapperclaw, or scold any one: a woman who lectures her husband, is said to comb his head. She combed his head with a joint stool; she threw a stool at him.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
Colt Veal * ComeNathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes