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.

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Car dealers complained that the spring buying wave had been a ripple instead of the hoped-for comber.

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"I looked out, and we were surfing on a big comber," he reported one day.

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Otherwise the careless comber will suffer headaches until the fledglings leave the hair-woven nest.

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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