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"Resembling or characteristic of a comb."
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"text": "a comby lode"
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"ref": "1884, John Arthur Phillips, A Treatise on Ore Deposits, page 44",
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"Of a wheel: having a defect consisting of a network of fine cracks covering a small area of the tread."
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"(US, railways) Of a wheel: having a defect consisting of a network of fine cracks covering a small area of the tread."
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