comber

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Watching the rollers lazily, the loafing ones would watch little figures scooting shoreward at the forefoot of a comber, lying flat in the foam or poised excitingly erect on flying surf boards.

From Time Magazine Archive

His spinnaker ballooning firm and white, Sturrock caught a great, wind-driven wave under his stern and rode it like a surfboarder on a Pacific comber.

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The end of the wing was engulfed in white fire that curled upward in a ghastly comber, spitting fragments of molten metal into the air.

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She heeled over and nosed into a grey comber.

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I clambered fore and aft my hulk until a comber split her, keel from ribs, and the big timber floated free; the mast, too, broke away.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer