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Corbe vs Combe - What's the difference?

corbe | combe |

As an adjective corbe

is (obsolete) crooked.

As a verb combe is

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corbe

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) crooked
  • * Spenser
    • Corbe shoulder.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    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 ----