comber

Speech parts

1. comber - Noun

2. comber - Verb

3. Comber - Proper noun

Meaning

One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.

A long, curling wave.

To cumber.

Encumbrance.

The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

breaker wave roll surge surf billow carder boomer currier sea comb swash rise stream flood
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Antonyms

still lower fall deflate reduce contract
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Hypernyms

machine wave worker moving ridge

Phrases with the word

blacktail comber

Anagrams

recomb

Examples

Who hath desired the Sea?-the sight of salt water unbounded- The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded? Rudyard Kipling

Another article told how Chief of Police Comber and Officer Earle Coleman pulled over a suspiciously slow-moving car, finding 15 gallons of “moon” in the back seat. Source: Internet

Thanks to census data, we know that she was born in 1889 in Comber, Ontario, returned to Ontario, married twice, and died in Chatham in 1947. Source: Internet

Letter from T. J. Comber to Mission Secretary Baynes 4.07.1882, Angus Library and Archive, Regent's Park College, Oxford. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Combee combeite Combellack Comberbach Comberow Combest