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.

From Time Magazine Archive

One comber smashed a port in the Hoovers' quarters in the fantail stern, flooding their dining room.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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Car dealers complained that the spring buying wave had been a ripple instead of the hoped-for 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