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Definition of Combers
1. comber [n] - See also: comber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Combers
Literary usage of Combers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Ancient Working People: From the Earliest Known Period to by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1889)
"... Cloth-combers—Inscrip 'o is as Proof—Later Laws of Theodosius and Justinian
Rcv.sed —Government Cloth Mills—What was Meant by Public Works—Who managed ..."
2. Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road by Lucian Swift Kirtland (1918)
"... XVI BEACH combers ON the morning that the boat was to sail from Yokohama we
were up as soon as the sun first came through the bamboo shades. ..."
3. Mystic Isles of the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien (1921)
"CHAPTER XIII The beach-combers of Papeete—The consuls tell their troubles—A bogus
lord—The American boot-blacks—The cowboy in the hospital— Ormsby, ..."
4. Adventure in New Zealand by Edward Jerningham Wakefield (1845)
"... settlements—Sawyers— Traders—"Beach-combers"'—List of whaling-stations in
1844— Statistics—Inexpediency of • shore-whaling—The whalers might have become ..."
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