comber1
/ˈkəʊmə
/noun
1A long curling sea wave: the combers, glassy blue-green, moved slowly in...
- I was caught in a comber of snow - a maelstrom like the break of a tsunami.
- Then a heavy comber shook my plane violently, tossing me from the cockpit into the water.
2A person or machine that prepares cotton or wool for manufacture by separating and straightening the fibres.What I never knew until now is that February 3, the day after Candlemas, is the Feast of St Blaise, the patron saint of wool combers....
- The majority of combers, spinners, cob winders, spoolers, beamers, weavers, menders, and other workers (about three hundred in all) were female.
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comber2
/ˈkɒmbə/noun
A small fish that gapes when dead, occurring in shallow waters from the western English Channel to the Mediterranean. Also called gaper.
- Serranus cabrilla, family Serranidae.
- It was interesting to observe how his copious nosebleed excited the fish, which came tumbling in to find out what was going on - the grouper, always inquisitive anyway, bream, combers and damselfish.
Origin
Mid 18th century: of unknown origin.
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