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Comber   /kˈoʊmər/   Listen
Comber

noun
1.
A person who separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool.
2.
A long curling sea wave.
3.
A machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool.





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"Comber" Quotes from Famous Books



... though, I fell to thinking of Mihanovich. What a romance that man's life must have been! They tell me that about forty years ago he'd landed in that place, a Russian Pole, ignorant of the language, without any money or friends, a low-down beach-comber. And here he was, a millionaire. Every tug on the river has his big M on the funnel. He had fleets of steamers, mines, railways, banks; and he was even tendering for the contract of the new docks the city wanted. No wonder others came to make their fortunes. No gentility needed to ...
— Aliens • William McFee
... student, the gypsy element still remaining strong within him. And this contradiction gives him the air of one who has suffered from opposition, both literary and social. With his liberal views, he is apparently considered by the good people of Pittsfield as little better than a cannibal or a 'beach-comber.' His attitude seemed to me something like that of Ishmael; but perhaps I judged hastily. I managed to draw him out very freely on everything but the Marquesas Islands, and when I left him he was in full tide of discourse on all things sacred and profane. ...
— Typee - A Romance of the South Sea • Herman Melville
... was the sensation of the plunge into the breakers, holding fast to my mother's hand, and then the race up the beach before the next comber, trembling lest it should catch me, as if it were a living thing ready to devour me. They never come back, these first emotions of childhood; and though I have loved the sea all my life, I have never again felt the sight of ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I • Stillman, William James
... hotel bath-houses and had strolled down into the streaming bubbles of an outgoing wave without halting to inspect the other bathers. There was a businesslike directness in the way he kept onward and outward until a comber lifted him and his swimming ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
... wool-comber, had received that day his sentence. Report of the sentence had spread among the reapers in the field and all along the vineyards of the hill-sides. Not a little stir was occasioned by this sentence: three days of whipping through the public ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 34, August, 1860 • Various


Words linked to "Comber" :   machine, worker, moving ridge, wave


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