1 KAMBR
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 KAMBR
2. a carding-comb (ullar-kambr), Grett. 91 A, Fb. i. 212.
3 KAMBR
II. a crest, comb, Al. 171; hreistr-k. (q. v.), hana-k., a cock’s crest, cp. Gullin-kambi, Gold crest, Vsp.
4 KAMBR
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.
5 KAMBR
III. freq. in local names, Kambr, of crags rising like a crest, Landn., Finnb. ch. 27.