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Definition of Comber
1. Noun. A person who separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool.
2. Noun. A long curling sea wave.
3. Noun. A machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool.
Definition of Comber
1. n. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.
2. v. t. To cumber.
3. n. Encumbrance.
4. n. The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.
Definition of Comber
1. Noun. a person who combs wool, etc ¹
2. Noun. a machine that combs wool, etc ¹
3. Noun. a long, curving wave breaking on the shore ¹
4. Noun. a type of seawater fish ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Comber
1. one that combs [n -S] - See also: combs
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comber
Literary usage of Comber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical by John Nichols, Samuel Bentley (1814)
"WILLIAM comber, Vicar of Kirbymoorside, second Son of the above THOMAS comber,
... Sacred to the Memory of DOROTHY Wife of the Rev. W. comber ..."
2. A History of British Fishes by William Yarrell (1841)
"comber, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 209, sp. 131. PENNANT says he received this species
from Cornwall, and supposed it to be the comber of Mr. Jago. ..."
3. Visitation of England and Walesby Joseph Jackson Howard, England College of arms by Joseph Jackson Howard, England College of arms (1907)
"comber . Crisp PEDIGREES. WOODCUTS OF ARMS AND SEALS. Aldridge . ... 113, 114
comber, impaling Coote . in comber „ Thornton no, 116 comber, ..."
4. Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore, Consisting of a edited by William Reeves (1847)
"The modern parish of comber is a union of three distinct rectories, which, ...
Thi- building was about a mile and a quarter distant from comber, ..."
5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"The harness lines from this hook pass through the holes marked 1 in the comber
board, these holes being at the front of the board. ..."
6. The Visitations of the County of Sussex Made and Taken in the Years 1530 by Thomas Benolt, John Philipot, George Owen, College of Arms (Great Britain) (1905)
">I greyhound's head couped sable, charged on the neck with three bezants, one
and two. John comber of Balcombe=j=Clemens d. of Tho. Nicholls of in Sussex. ..."
7. Life in the English Church (1660-1714) by John Henry Overton (1885)
"But Thomas comber (1644-1699) was an excellent man, deservedly held in the highest
reputation by his contemporaries, and by none more so than by Dean ..."
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