A toothed implement used for grooming hair, separating fibers, preventing objects from getting trapped, chasing screws, measuring, collecting electricity, creating wells in agar gels, weaving, and combing substrate in scorpions.

A crest or fleshy growth on the head of certain animals, a crest on a piece of armor, or the top part of a gun's stock.

A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.

(music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.

A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.

An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.

The curling crest of a wave; a comber.

(algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.

(rare) Abbreviation of combination. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Alternative form of combe

(transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.

(transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.

(transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.

(nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.

(naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.