comber

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He was pulled to safety aboard the rescue vessel; then a toppling comber roared in and swept twelve men off the Tusk's slippery deck.

From Time Magazine Archive

The end of the wing was engulfed in white fire that curled upward in a ghastly comber, spitting fragments of molten metal into the air.

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Its normal bow wave, increased by the pressure of the turn, grows into a foaming comber.

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Yet the wave of complaints against the way CWA was run was only a mild ripple compared to the comber of complaints against the plan to stop running CWA altogether.

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I clambered fore and aft my hulk until a comber split her, keel from ribs, and the big timber floated free; the mast, too, broke away.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer