One whose business is to make combs; a comb-cutter.
c. 1450. Nominale, in Wr.-Wülcker, 686/31. Hic pectinarius, a Comemaker.
1530. Palsgr., 207/1. Combe maker, piengnier.
1755. Mem. Capt. P. Drake, I. iv. 30. He was a Combmaker by Profession.
1833. M. Scott, Tom Cringle, xv. (1859), 366. Any combmaker will furnish you forth as good as new.
