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Coomb

• Coomb is 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 was a 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 is the title of a poem by British Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

• Brockley Coomb is the title of a poem by British poet Arthur Hugh Clough.

• Coomb's test is an aid to medical diagnosis.

• Coomb's Cove, Canada.

• 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.

• 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

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