Definitions for Coombs

Coombs coomb

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

Coombs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in Coombs (bcmoos).

Definitions for Coombs

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 Coombs

Old English cumb valley British Celtic; cf. cwm

Examples for Coombs

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for Coombs
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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