comber

A person who combs wool, etc.

Noun

  1. A person who combs wool, etc.
  2. A machine that combs wool, etc.
  3. A long, curving wave breaking on the shore.
    • The mighty combers crashed down with long echoing reverberations like the roar of great cannons, followed by the ominous swish of broken water rushing across the reef in mad clouds of foam and spray. - 1929, Robert Dean...

Origin

From Middle English comber, camber, equivalent to comb + -er.

Forms

combers

Synonyms

breaker

Derived

beachcomber grass-comber wool comber woolcomber

Noun Entry 2

  1. Serranus cabrilla, the gaper, a fish found in European waters.

Forms

combers

Derived

brown comber painted comber comber wrasse