comber
Example Sentences
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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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I looked out, and we were surfing on a big comber," he reported one day.
From Time Magazine Archive
She heeled over and nosed into a grey comber.
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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