coomb
1or coombe
coomb
2- coom.
combe
or comb, coomb, coombe
- a narrow valley or deep hollow, especially one enclosed on all but one side.
Origin of combe
coom
or coomb
- soot; coal dust; smut.
- dust, especially sawdust or dust from a gristmill.
- grease from bearings, axles, etc.
Origin of coom
Examples from the Web for coomb
Historical Examples of coomb
It would be rapture, belike, in a Devon coomb, or on a Hampshire hill-top.
The Record of Nicholas FreydonA. J. (Alec John) Dawson
This coomb is seen on the eastern side of the valley of the Ouse, in the suburbs of the town of Lewes.
A Manual of Elementary GeologyCharles Lyell.
I bethought me, however, to try the creek which drained the coomb, and see whether it might not have made itself a smoother way.
ErewhonSamuel Butler
The entrance to a coomb, the widening mouth of a valley, is beyond, with copses on the slopes.
The Open AirRichard Jefferies
As the coomb opened, the squire went along a hedge near but not quite to the top.
Field and HedgerowRichard Jefferies
coomb
combe, coombe or comb
- mainly Southern English a short valley or deep hollow, esp in chalk areas
- mainly Northern English another name for cirque
Word Origin for coomb
combe
comb
- variant spellings of coomb
coom
coomb
- dialect, mainly Scot and Northern English waste material, such as dust from coal, grease from axles, etc
Word Origin for coom
Word Origin and History for coomb
also combe, "deep hollow or valley, especially on flank of a hill," mainly surviving in place names, from Old English cumb, probably a British word, from Celtic base *kumbos (cf. Welsh cwm in same sense). Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names says, "This is usually taken to be a Celtic loan ... but there was also OE cumb 'vessel, cup, bowl,'" which was "probably used in a transferred topographical sense reinforced in western districts by cwm."