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English : occupational name for a wool or flax comber, Middle English kem(be)stere (an agent derivative of Old English cemban ‘to comb’). Although this was originally a feminine form of the masculine kembere, by the Middle English period the suffix -stre had lost its feminine force, and the term was used to refer to both sexes. Compare Baxter, Brewster, Dexter.
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English : occupational name for a comber or carder of wool, from an agent derivative of Middle English tÅse(n) ‘to tease’.Americanized spelling of Hungarian TÅ‘zsér, an occupational name for a dealer or tradesman, tÅ‘zsér, especially one selling cattle.
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English : occupational name from Middle English combere, an agent derivative of Old English camb ‘comb’, referring perhaps to a maker or seller of combs, or to someone who used them to prepare wool or flax for spinning. This was an alternative process to carding, and caused the wool fibers to lie more or less parallel to one another, so that the cloth produced had a hard, smooth finish without a nap.English : variant of Coomber.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Kommer or Kammer.
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Irish : reduced, Anglicized, and altered form of Gaelic Mac Cumascaigh ‘son of Cumascach’, a byname from cumascach ‘mixer’, ‘confuser’. See also Comiskey.English : habitational name from Comberford in Staffordshire, so named with the Old English personal name Cumbra (originally an ethnic name for a British Celt), or from the genitive plural of the tribal name, meaning ‘of the British’ + Old English ford ‘ford’.
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English : habitational name for someone from Comberbach in northern Cheshire, named with the Old English personal name Cumbra (originally a byname meaning ‘Cumbrian’) or the genitive plural of Cumbre ‘Britons’ + Old English bæce ‘stream in a valley’.
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English : variant of Comer or Coomber.Irish : reduced form of McComber.
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n.
A long, curling wave.
n.
The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.
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One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.
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Encumbrance.
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A European fish. See 4th Comber.
v. t.
To cumber.