comber
Example Sentences
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The image is gripping: Mikhail Gorbachev as the daring surfer, nimbly sliding across a wave, vanishing into the spume, only to reappear, confidently using the giant comber looming over him to increase his speed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its normal bow wave, increased by the pressure of the turn, grows into a foaming comber.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I looked out, and we were surfing on a big comber," he reported one day.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two were swept back by the next comber, but the rest were lost.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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