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.