COMBER

Definition: COMBER

COMBER

Noun

1. The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.

2. Encumbrance.

3. A long, curling wave.

4. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.

Transitive verb

1. To cumber.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COMBER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Industry

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

River

Gelasma/gr>; beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea.

Traveler

Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro.

Crosswords: COMBER

Books

• Comber, czyli opowiesc o miasteczku (reference)

• The Comber family : with notes on the various families of the surname Rivers (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "COMBER": beach comber ♦ L comber ♦ Labrus comber ♦ wool comber. Additional references.

Beginning with "COMBER": Comber-dundonald.

Ending with "COMBER": beach-comber.

Arabic 

‏ممشط, ‏موجة طويلة متكسرة, ‏مشاطة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

�"арак, �"ребен За � азчесване На �'ълна, �"оляма Островърха �'ълна. (various references)

Czech

Břemeno (burden, drain, encumbrance, onus, pack, weight). (various references)

Danish

kæmmemaskine, gedebars, en art havaborre (dogtooth grouper). (various references)

Dutch

seitenbaars, geitenbaars. (various references)

Finnish

pastelliahven (gaper). (various references)

French

peigneuse (comb). (various references)

German

Ziegenbarsch, Sägebarsch, Kämmmaschine. (various references)

Greek 

χάννος (gaper). (various references)

Hebrew 

־�'ר�"�". (various references)

Hungarian

Fésülõ Gép. (various references)

Italian

Cardatore (carder, heckler), sciarrano (painted comber), Pettinatore (heckler), perchia. (various references)

Manx

tonn vooar (beachcomber, breaker), cabbyl bane, caarteyder (carder, currier). (various references)

Pig Latin

ombercay

Portuguese

penteadeira (dressing table). (various references)

Romanian

Val Brizant, Maşina De Dãrãci. (various references)

Russian 

чесальщик (carder), Большая �'олна. (various references)

Spanish

Combo (bent, sledgehammer), cabrilla, peinadora, máquina peinadora. (various references)

Swedish

Ullkammare, större medelhavsabborre, Kardare (carder), kammaskin, Brottsjö (breaker, heavy sea). (various references)

Turkish

Uzun Ve Tümsekli Dalga, Tarakçı (carder), Tarak Makinesi (carder, couloir, dredger). (various references)

Ukrainian

чесальна Машина, чесальник (carder). (various references)

Vietnamese 

máy chải đợt sóng lớn cu�"n cuộn. (various references)

Serranus cabrilla, Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "COMBER": combers. (additional references)

Words ending with "COMBER": beachcomber. (additional references)

Words containing "COMBER": beachcombers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"COMBER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chomba, cmbor, Coberg, Comba, Comberg, combi, comble, commdr, commer, Conibear, Conybeare, coomber, coombi, Corbar, corber, Coubre, Coumba, Crombet, Cymmer, Gombar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: recomb.

-1 letter: brome, combe, comer, omber, ombre.

-2 letters: berm, bore, cero, comb, come, core, corm, more, omer, robe.

-3 letters: bro, cob, cor, mob, moc, mor, obe, orb, orc, ore, reb, rec, rem, rob, roc, roe, rom.

-4 letters: be, bo, em, er, me, mo, oe, om, or, re.

+1 letter: combers, microbe, recombs.

+2 letters: beclamor, bichrome, combater, combiner, comember, corymbed, cramboes, microbes, recombed.

+3 letters: beclamors, biometric, chemisorb, combaters, combiners, comembers, corymbose, crossbeam, embraceor, embryonic, microbeam, microbrew, recombine, recombing.

+4 letters: barometric, beclamored, bichromate, biometrics, bolometric, chemisorbs, comparable, crossbeams, cumbersome, embouchure, embraceors, microbeams, microbrews, microbuses, microprobe, procumbent, recombined, recombines, scrubwomen.

+5 letters: bachelordom, beachcomber, beclamoring, bichromated, bichromates, bimolecular, bimorphemic, biometrical, cabbageworm, chemisorbed, chromophobe, comfortable, confirmable, conformable, corymbosely, coxcombries, crossbowmen, currycombed, embarcadero, embouchures, embrocation, embryogenic, meroblastic, microbrewer, microbusses, microprobes, microtubule, mobocracies, problematic, recombinant, recombining, thrombocyte.