(1) I was caught in a comber of snow - a maelstrom like the break of a tsunami.(2) Then a heavy comber shook my plane violently, tossing me from the cockpit into the water.(3) What I never knew until now is that February 3, the day after Candlemas, is the Feast of St Blaise, the patron saint of wool combers .(4) The majority of combers , spinners, cob winders, spoolers, beamers, weavers, menders, and other workers (about three hundred in all) were female.
