comber
Americannoun
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a person, tool, or machine that combs wool, flax, etc
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a long curling wave; roller
Etymology
Origin of comber
Vocabulary lists containing comber
Example Sentences
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Car dealers complained that the spring buying wave had been a ripple instead of the hoped-for comber.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was pulled to safety aboard the rescue vessel; then a toppling comber roared in and swept twelve men off the Tusk's slippery deck.
From Time Magazine Archive
She heeled over and nosed into a grey comber.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet the wave of complaints against the way CWA was run was only a mild ripple compared to the comber of complaints against the plan to stop running CWA altogether.
From Time Magazine Archive
I clambered fore and aft my hulk until a comber split her, keel from ribs, and the big timber floated free; the mast, too, broke away.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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