Coomb
Coomb may refer to:
- Coomb, a rare Celtic Brythonic survival word; meaning a small deep dry valley, easily defended. Deeping Coomb is the name of the fictional well-defended deep valley in The Lord of the Rings. (See: Coombe for a full entry on this primary meaning).
- Coomb, an Saxon quantity, a liquid measurement by volume. Its exact original details are not known. In 13th Century England it was defined as 4 bushels. In use in Norfolk until the 1790s or later, as a dry measure:- "Ben sold my Wheat to the Marlingford Miller this Morning for 19 shillings per Coomb" - Parson Woodforde's Diary, May 20th 1786.
- Brockley Coomb, the title of a poem by
- British Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- British poet Arthur Hugh Clough.
- Coombs test, an aid to medical diagnosis.
- Coomb ceiling, a sloping underside section of a roof or stairwell ceiling.
- Coomb Teak, a medicinal tree (Latin name: 'Gmelina arborea').
- Coomb spores (fictional) are used in an assassination attempt in the Star Wars films.
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Places
- Coomb's Cove, Canada.
- Places in England and Ireland:
- Brockley Coomb, near Bristol.
- Coomb Valley, North Cornwall.
- Coomb Bank, Kent
- Coomb Briggs Wood, Lincolnshire.
- White Coomb, a mountain in Dumfries and Galloway.
- Coomb Dodd, South Lanarkshire
- Coomb Island (Eilean na Coomb).