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COMBE
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English
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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Irish
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
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a short, straight valley, from Middle English combe (see Coombe), + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.Americanized spelling of German Kummer.
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English
English : nickname for a new arrival in a place, from Middle English newe-come(n) ‘recently come’, ‘just arrived’. The intrusive -b- is the result of the influence of place names ending in -combe (see Coombe).Americanized form of German Neukamm, possibly arising from a misinterpretation of its etymology as neu ‘new’ + Kamm ‘comb’ (see Neukam).According to family tradition, Capt. Andrew Newcomb was born in England in 1618 and died in Boston, MA, in 1686, leaving family who settled both in MA and in Kittery, ME. Among his descendants was the internationally renowned astronomer Simon Newcomb (1835–1909).
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English
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
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a narrow valley, Middle English combe or habitational name from a place named with this word (see Coombe).Irish : reduced form of McCombe (see McComb).French : topographic name from Gaulish cumba ‘(narrow) valley’, ‘combe’. Compare Lacombe.
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English
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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English
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
English : topographic name for a dweller in a valley, Middle English atte combe ‘at the valley’.English : habitational name from one of the places (in Northumberland and Yorkshire) named Acomb, from Old English æt Äcum ‘at the oaks’.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : habitational name, probably from Morecombelake in Dorset (recorded as Mortecumbe in 1240). The second element of this is Old English cumb ‘short valley’, ‘combe’ (see Coombe); the first is probably either an Old English personal name, Morta (see Mort) or mort ‘young salmon or similar fish’. The surname is not from Morecambe in Lancashire, which is an 18th-century coinage, based on identification of Morecambe Bay with Morikambē ‘great gulf’ in the work of the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy.
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English
English : habitational name from some minor place named with Old English clǣg ‘clay’ + cumb ‘combe’, ‘valley’, for example Claycombe near Minchinhampton in Gloucestershire.Perhaps a variant of German Kleikamp (see Claycamp).
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English
English : variant of Comer or Coomber.Irish : reduced form of McComber.
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English (chiefly Bristol)
English (chiefly Bristol) : status name from the Anglo-Norman French feudal term franchomme ‘free man’ (see Free), composed of the elements franc ‘free’ (see Frank 2) + homme ‘man’ (Latin homo). The spelling has been altered as the result of folk etymological association with the common English place name endings -combe and -ham.
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English combe (Old English cumb, of Celtic origin) denoting a short, straight valley, or else a habitational name from a place named with this word. There are a large number of places in England, mostly spelled Combe, named with this word. Compare Coombs.
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English
English : variant of Coombs.French : habitational name from any of various places in southern France, for example in Hérault, named Combes, from Latin cumba ‘narrow valley’, ‘ravine’, a word of Gaulish origin.
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Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Moon Light
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Bengali, Indian
Queen
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Hebrew
Bee. Deborah was the Biblical prophetess who summoned Barak to battle against an army of...
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Granter of wisdom
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Merchant; Trader; That Humbles and Subdues
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Tamil
Beautiful eyes, A woman with Lovely eyes
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African, Arabic, Indian, Tamil
Beautiful
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American, Australian, Chinese, Greek, Welsh
Pearl; Based on the Abbreviation Meg
Biblical
people despised or obscure
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English
English : variant of Sermon.
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n.
The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.
a.
Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.
n.
That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it.
n.
Well-twisted yarn spun of long-staple wool which has been combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery, gloves, and the like.
n.
See Comb.
n.
One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.
v. t.
To cumber.
n.
A long, curling wave.
n.
The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.
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Alt. of Combe
imp. & p. p.
of Comb
n.
The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool.
n.
A hollow in a hillside. [Prov. Eng.] See Comb, Combe.
n.
Encumbrance.
n.
A European fish. See 4th Comber.