combers

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Like the Mendips, they turn their steepest flank westwards, the ascent on the E. being gradual; and on this side they are cut by a number of well-timbered and delightful combes.

From Somerset by Wade, G. W.

We gaue them kniues, combes, beads of glasse, and other trifles of small value, for which they made many signes of gladnesse, lifting their hands vp to heauen dancing and singing in their boates.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard

I know what you’re going to say—puff of wind might lay us over as we pass one of the combes.

From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by Fenn, George Manville

They would bring our men earthen pottes of the quantitie of two gallons, full of hony and hony combes for 100 shelles.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard

Inland the valley changes suddenly from barren cliffs to a profusion of copses and thickets, and several beautiful deeply cleft combes, overbrimming with thick trees, open into the valley.

From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Northcote, Rosalind