Definitions for coomb

coomb coomb

Spelling: [koom, kohm]
IPA: /kum, koʊm/

Coomb is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in coomb (bcmoo).

Definitions for coomb

noun

  1. combe.
  2. coom.
  3. a narrow valley or deep hollow, especially one enclosed on all but one side.
  4. soot; coal dust; smut.
  5. dust, especially sawdust or dust from a gristmill.
  6. grease from bearings, axles, etc.

Origin of coomb

Old English cumb valley British Celtic; cf. cwm

Examples for coomb

As the coomb opened, the squire went along a hedge near but not quite to the top.

Down below the sea was dashing into the mouth of the glen, or coomb, as they call it there.

It would be rapture, belike, in a Devon coomb, or on a Hampshire hill-top.

The entrance to a coomb, the widening mouth of a valley, is beyond, with copses on the slopes.

This coomb is seen on the eastern side of the valley of the Ouse, in the suburbs of the town of Lewes.

I bethought me, however, to try the creek which drained the coomb, and see whether it might not have made itself a smoother way.

Word Value for coomb
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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