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- noun Plural form of
comber .
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Examples
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The force of the big combers is rather unexpected.
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The sun had just gone down; it was getting dusky; the damp night wind was beginning to blow, and the heavy swell of the Pacific was setting in, and breaking in loud and high "combers" upon the beach.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869
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The sun had just gone down; it was getting dusky; the damp night wind was beginning to blow, and the heavy swell of the Pacific was setting in, and breaking in loud and high "combers" upon the beach.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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He could fight his way out through breaking combers that would batter you and me to a jelly.
The Sheriff of Kona 2010
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Half a mile out, where the reef is, the white-headed combers thrust suddenly skyward out of the placid turquoise-blue and come rolling in to shore.
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Hove to under this short canvas, our decks were comparatively free of water, while the Ghost bobbed and ducked amongst the combers like a cork.
Chapter 17 2010
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I looked seaward where he pointed, and saw the great smoking combers that made the breakers I had been riding look like ripples.
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At any moment they were liable to be overwhelmed by the hissing combers.
Chapter 19 2010
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Sometimes one passes through half a dozen combers in quick succession, and it is just about that time that one is liable to discover new merits in the stable land and new reasons for being on shore.
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From the slender shelf he and the sheep occupied, it was, he guessed, at least two hundred feet straight down to the Atlantic breakers crashing far below -- so far, in fact, that he could barely hear the thudding combers above the whistle of the wind.
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