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noun ˈkəʊməˈkoʊmər 1A long curling sea wave. the combers, glassy blue-green, moved slowly in Example sentencesExamples - 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.
Synonyms wave, breaker, roller, billow 2A person or machine that prepares cotton or wool for manufacture by separating and straightening the fibres. Example sentencesExamples - The majority of combers, spinners, cob winders, spoolers, beamers, weavers, menders, and other workers (about three hundred in all) were female.
- 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.
Rhymes aroma, carcinoma, chroma, coma, diploma, glaucoma, Homer, lymphoma, melanoma, misnomer, Oklahoma, Omagh, roamer, Roma, romer, sarcoma, soma noun ˈkɒmbəˈkɑmbər A small fish that gapes when dead, occurring in shallow waters from the western English Channel to the Mediterranean. Serranus cabrilla, family Serranidae Also called gaper Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- On rocky rummages in the shallows you might spy damsel fish, red mullet, painted combers and rainbow wrasse before they dart off.
Origin Mid 18th century: of unknown origin. nounˈkoʊmərˈkōmər 1A long curling sea wave. the combers, glassy blue-green, moved slowly in Example sentencesExamples - Then a heavy comber shook my plane violently, tossing me from the cockpit into the water.
- I was caught in a comber of snow - a maelstrom like the break of a tsunami.
Synonyms wave, breaker, roller, billow 2A person or machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool. Example sentencesExamples - The majority of combers, spinners, cob winders, spoolers, beamers, weavers, menders, and other workers (about three hundred in all) were female.
- 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.
nounˈkämbərˈkɑmbər A small fish that gapes when dead, occurring in shallow waters from the western English Channel to the Mediterranean. Serranus cabrilla, family Serranidae Also called gaper Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- On rocky rummages in the shallows you might spy damsel fish, red mullet, painted combers and rainbow wrasse before they dart off.
Origin Mid 18th century: of unknown origin. |