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comber | cumber |

As a proper noun comber

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

As a verb cumber is

(dated) to slow down, to hinder, to burden.

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

    cumber

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cumbre (archaic)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To slow down, to hinder, to burden.
  • * Dryden
    • Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?
  • * John Locke
    • The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, but cumbers the memory.
  • * 1886 , Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel . Pub.: Adams & Charles Black, Edinburgh; page 321:
    • the base villain who murdered this poor defenceless old man, when he had not, by the course of nature, a twelvemonth's life in him, shall not cumber the earth long after him.

    Synonyms

    * encumber

    See also

    *

    Related terms

    * cumbersome * cumbrous * encumbrance * cumberground

    References

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