comber
Example Sentences
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Car dealers complained that the spring buying wave had been a ripple instead of the hoped-for comber.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was pulled to safety aboard the rescue vessel; then a toppling comber roared in and swept twelve men off the Tusk's slippery deck.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its normal bow wave, increased by the pressure of the turn, grows into a foaming comber.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I looked out, and we were surfing on a big comber," he reported one day.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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