combe

plural combes · alternative comb · alternative coomb · alternative coombe · alternative coom · alternative coome

1. A valley, often wooded and often with no river

   gradual rise the shelving combe displayed.

   1805, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Madoc, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and A[rchibald] Constable and Co, […], by James Ballantyne, […], →OCLC

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   its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe.

   1914, Saki, ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts

   You wake up next morning on what looks like Salisbury Plain, only here you climb up the side of every combe, round the end and out the other side.

   1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 264-265

2. A cirque.

plural Combes

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. A number of places in England:
   1. countableuncountableA hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU3760).
   2. countableuncountableA small village in Brixton parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX5452).
   3. countableuncountableA hamlet near Scorriton, West Buckfastleigh parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX7068).
   4. countableuncountableA hamlet in Malborough parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX7138).
   5. countableuncountableA hamlet in Wadhurst parish, Wealden district, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ6228).
   6. countableuncountableA hamlet and civil parish in west Herefordshire, on the border with Wales (OS grid ref SO3463).
   7. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP4116).
   8. countableuncountableA hamlet in Huish Episcopi parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4128).