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Combe vs Comber - What's the difference?

combe | comber |

As a verb combe

is .

As a proper noun comber is

a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist thomas comber (1837-1902).

combe

English

(wikipedia combe)

Alternative forms

* comb * coomb * coombe

Noun

(en noun)
  • A valley or hollow, often wooded and with no river.
  • * 1914 , (Saki), ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts :
    • its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe .
  • * Southey
    • A gradual rise the shelving combe displayed.
  • A cirque.

    • Usage notes

    * Used, especially in South West England, in many placenames ----

    comber

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who combs wool, etc.
  • A machine that combs wool, etc.
  • A long, curving wave breaking on the shore.
    • Synonyms
    * (long curving wave) breaker

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia comber) (Serranus cabrilla) (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • , the gaper, a fish found in European waters.
    • Derived terms
    * brown comber * painted comber * comber wrasse