comber

From Middle English comber, camber, equivalent to comb +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊmə/
• (US) enPR: kōʹmər, IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊmɚ/

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• Homophone: coma (in non-rhotic accents)

comber (plural combers)

1. A person who combs wool, etc.
2. A machine that combs wool, etc.
3. A long, curving wave breaking on the shore.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 118):

     The mighty combers crashed down with long echoing reverberations like the roar of great cannons, followed by the ominous swish of broken water rushing across the reef in mad clouds of foam and spray.

• (long curving wave): breaker

• beachcomber
• grass-comber

A comber

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmbə/

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• (US) enPR: kämʹbər, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmbɚ/

comber (plural combers)

1. Serranus cabrilla, the gaper, a fish found in European waters.

• brown comber (Serranus hepatus)
• painted comber (Serranus picta)
• comber wrasse (comb wrasse, Labrus bergylta, syn. Labrus comber)

• recomb

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɔm.bɛr/

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• Rhymes: -ɔmbɛr
• Syllabification: com‧ber
• Homophones: cąber, Cąber, Comber

Borrowed from German Ziemer, Zimmer.

comber m inan (diminutive comberek)

1. saddle (cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone)
2. dish prepared from such meat

Perhaps borrowed from German Zampern, Zempern, Zemper.

comber m inan

1. (historical) medieval folk carnival game formerly held in various regions of Poland, usually on Fat Thursday

• comber in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• comber in Polish dictionaries at PWN