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noun

Beach n. (pl. beaches)

Pebbles, collectively; shingle.

The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.

Beach flea (Zool.), the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidae, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas.

Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea), growing on the sandy shores of lakes and seas, which, by its interlaced running rootstocks, binds the sand together, and resists the encroachment of the waves.

Beach wagon, a light open wagon with two or more seats.

Raised beach, an accumulation of water-worn stones, gravel, sand, and other shore deposits, above the present level of wave action, whether actually raised by elevation of the coast, as in Norway, or left by the receding waters, as in many lake and river regions.

verb

Beach v. t. (past & past part. beached; pres. part. beaching) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

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Etymology of 'Beach'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Beach" Quotes from Famous Books

... the more open land near the beach, the possibility of making a successful cast of the spear became more and more doubtful. Finally the savage shrunk into the ...

— Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader - A Tale of the Pacific • R. M. Ballantyne

... upon which Hartog determined to land was bright and fine; the place a sandy beach upon which the waves broke in frothy spume. We were all keen to be ashore after so long a spell of the sea, and I reckoned myself in luck to be chosen as one of the boat's ...

— Adventures in Southern Seas - A Tale of the Sixteenth Century • George Forbes

... few steps up the beach,—which action seemed to terrify the newcomer almost into flight. Seeing this, he sat down on his haunches amiably, and waited to see what she would do. What she did, after much hesitation and delay and half-retreat, was to come up to his side and sniff trustfully but ...

— The Watchers of the Trails - A Book of Animal Life • Charles G. D. Roberts

... shell-strewn beach that edged the main, A manly footstep pressed; The wanderer had returned again,— ...

— Mazelli, and Other Poems • George W. Sands

... a windy night. The ocean was dashing and foaming along the sea wall on the beach where Long Wharf, Lewis Wharf, and Rowe's Wharf now are. The stars shone brightly, and clouds flew scudding over ...

— True to His Home - A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin • Hezekiah Butterworth

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