beachcomber

[ beech-koh-mer ]

/ ˈbitʃˌkoʊ mər /

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noun

a person who lives by gathering salable articles of jetsam, refuse, etc., from beaches.

a vagrant who lives on the seashore, especially a nonnative person living in such a way on a South Pacific island.

a long wave rolling in from the ocean onto the beach.

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Origin of beachcomber

First recorded in 1830–40; beach + comber

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How to use beachcomber in a sentence

Dinner was a baroque affair, on the beach, a warm breeze gently blowing.
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The city protests that a beach is not a suitable place to feed the hungry.
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One of the three, Ralph Goodwin, is said to have drowned while swimming at a beach outside Havana.
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Inside the Miami Beach Convention Center, there is a lot of good art—but more pretty art.
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She had enrolled at Maimonides University in North Miami Beach in order to work towards a degree in clinical sexology.
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If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
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The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.
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The little crowd and the boats on the beach were right under them and no one paid any attention or seemed to be in a hurry.
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My thought was to keep pushing in troops from "W" Beach until the enemy had fallen back to save themselves from being cut off.
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Going back, found that the lighter loads of wounded already taken off have by no means cleared the beach.
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British Dictionary definitions for beachcomber

beachcomber

/ (ˈbiːtʃˌkəʊmə) /

noun

a person who searches shore debris for anything of worth, esp a vagrant living on a beach

Canadian (in British Columbia) a person who is paid for salvaging loose logs and returning them to logging companies

a long high wave rolling onto a beach

Derived forms of beachcomber

beachcombing, noun

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