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comber
[ koh-mer ]
comber
/ ˈkəʊmə /
noun
- a person, tool, or machine that combs wool, flax, etc
- a long curling wave; roller
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Although Christopher's father was only a poor wool comber, he managed to send his son to school at Pavia (pah-vea).
Full twenty feet of the granite layers were thus submerged and exposed whenever a big comber traveled sheer over the reef.
He has, indeed, been sometimes made a kinsman of the wool-comber's son.
Strong demands, truly, for the poor wool-comber's son of Genoa to speak to the dazzling king of Spain!
For ordinary purposes a sufficiently good quality can be made without a comber.
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