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1 KAMBR
(-s, -ar), m.1) comb;2) carding-comb;3) crest, comb;4) ridge (of hills).* * *m. [A. S. camb; Engl. comb; O. H. G. champ; Germ. kamm; Dan. kam]:—a comb, Dipl. iii. 4; ladies used to wear costly combs of walrus-tusk or gold, whence the place in Icel. at which Auda lost her comb was called Kambsnes; þau lendu við nes þat er Auðr tapaði kambi sínum; þat kallaði hón Kambsnes, Landn. III; eigi berr hann kamb í höfuð sér, Þiðr. 127; see Worsaae, No. 365.2. a carding-comb (ullar-kambr), Grett. 91 A, Fb. i. 212.II. a crest, comb, Al. 171; hreistr-k. (q. v.), hana-k., a cock’s crest, cp. Gullin-kambi, Gold crest, Vsp.2. a crest, ridge of hills; malar-kambr, a ridge on the beach, Háv. 48 (where spelt kampr), Grág. ii. 354; as also bæjar-kambr, the front wall of a house.III. freq. in local names, Kambr, of crags rising like a crest, Landn., Finnb. ch. 27. -
2 TINDR
(-s, -ar), m.1) spike, tooth of a comb;2) mountain-peak (fjalli tindr).* * *m. [A. S. tind; Germ. zinne], a spike, tooth, as of a rake, harrow, carding comb; hrífu-tindr, gékk út kerling ein ok hafði ullkamb í hendi … muntú festa, bokki, tindinn í kambi mínum? Fb. iii. 446; járna-tindar, iron spikes, Gd.; með snörpum tindum, Bs. ii. 87: a mountain-peak, hann komsk upp í tindinn ok varðisk þar, Sturl. iii. 50; hér er mér sagt til skógar-mannsins upp í tindunum þessum, Grett. 134, passim; fjalls-tindr, jökul-t., hamra-t., kletta-t.: also freq. in local names, Tindr, Tindar, Tinda-stóll, Hafra-tindr, Landn., Sturl., map of Icel.: as a pr. name, Tindr, Landn. tinda-bikkja, u, f. a kind of skait, raia clavata.
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