Comber [noun]

Definition of Comber:

sea surf, current

Synonyms of Comber:


Opposite/Antonyms of Comber:

Line


Sentence/Example of Comber:

Although Christopher's father was only a poor wool comber, he managed to send his son to school at Pavia (pah-vea).

Full twenty feet of the granite layers were thus submerged and exposed whenever a big comber traveled sheer over the reef.

He has, indeed, been sometimes made a kinsman of the wool-comber's son.

Strong demands, truly, for the poor wool-comber's son of Genoa to speak to the dazzling king of Spain!

For ordinary purposes a sufficiently good quality can be made without a comber.

He was the son of a poor wool-comber, and while yet very young he helped in his father's daily toil.

At last he felt himself uplifted on the crest of a gigantic comber and carried helplessly into the maw of that black gullet.

The July weather had been magnificent—blue skies, a gentle wind, and a sea scarcely silvered by a comber.

Next to the mule, there is no doubt that the most beautiful machine used in the cotton trade is Heilmann's comber.

The flocks left at the end of the process, because they are too short for the comber to grasp them in his hand, are called noyls.