combful

Enough to fill a comb (toothed implement).

Lucilla remained standing before the glass, arranging her wind-tossed hair; and, in her vehemence, tearing out combfuls, as she pulled petulantly against the tangled curls.

Is your hair coming out by great combsful? Every combful causing a pang of fear for the future.

Enough to fill a honeycomb.

If I were to order a small swarm of Ligurians, and on arrival give them half-a-dozen combfuls of brood, but clear of bees, from as many hives, of course they would do well;[…]

The very few fertile workers we have been troubled with have never laid ‘several combsful of eggs, two or three in every cell,’ as yours did, but just a few in scattered cells here and there, two or three in a cell.