comber
noun[C]
uk/ˈkəʊ.mər/us/ˈkoʊ.mɚ/along,curlingwave
卷浪Waves
- bore
- breaker
- choppy
- crest
- dumper
- heavy
- lap
- overfall
- ripple
- rough
- roughness
- spume
- standing wave
- surf
- tidal wave
- tsunami
- wake
- wave
- white horses
- whitecaps
- A third time the beach combers crashed down like a falling mountain.
- As the wave speeds on, and the bottom strikes the ground, the top breaks into a huge comber.
- Great combers occasionally swept the decks from bow to stern.
- The next beach comber could not budge her.
- The sea lay sparkling in the sunlight, while almost at their feet great white-crested combers were rolling in and breaking against the sandy bluff.
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Therefore, the largest single unit of wool combers in the world has been compelled to pass a dividend.
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We want, however, someone to comb out the combers.
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Comberis growing constantly and is chock-a-block with traffic early in the morning and at five o'clock in the evening.
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Some spinners and weavers are large companies, but dyers and combers, fabric printers and top makers are usually small, and in some cases very small companies.
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He is the patron saint of wool combers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thecomberfeeds on other fish, cephalopods and crustaceans.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Other commercial species include huachinangos, red porgy, combers, wahoo, and mojarra.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There was a decline in the wool trade in the eighteenth century, which led to unemployment for combers and weavers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There were also calls forcombermarket to be reinstated after years without one.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The top represents the wool comber's finished product, and it is in this form that the wool is bought and sold as the spinner's raw material.
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- considered judgment
- considering
- consider it done
- consider-it-done
- consign
- consigned
- consignee
- consigning
- consignment
- consignment account
- consignment-account
- consignment invoice
- consignment-invoice
- consignment note
- consignment-note
- consignment store
- sack out
- sack-out
- sack race
- sack-race
- sack truck
- sack-truck
- sacra
- sacral
- sacrament