Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "comber" [comb•er•com•ber]

  • One, such as a machine or a worker, that combs something, such as wool. (noun)
  • A long wave that has reached its peak or broken into foam; a breaker. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "comber" in a sentence
  • "They all had caps of the same pattern, and wore a subdued look, in addition to their naturally aquiline features, as if a breaker -- a "comber" -- had washed over them."
  • "_Chelton_ was shot through what seemed to be a "comber" as if she had been a submarine."
  • "This was just after Mr Zachariah Lathrope, the American passenger, had so well illustrated Virgil's line, _facilus descensus averni_, in coming down the stairway by the run, on the top of a "comber;" and, although the steward had lit one of the swinging lamps over the cuddy table, it only served, with its feeble flickering light, to "make the darkness visible" and render the scene more sombre."