Beachcomber

Definitions

1. A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
2. A retreat in Smiths Bay, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.
3. Any loafer around a waterfront.
4. A private island, one of the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji.
5. A person who collects marine salvage at the coast.
6. A long rolling wave of the sea.

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Examples

“The society of beach-combers always repays the small pains you need⟳ be at to enjoy⟳ it. They are easy of approach⟳ and affable in conversation.”

“Now and again a wreck was to be seen, or a vessel left lonely and sad on a reef, her rigging dismantled and only waiting for beachcombers to come⟳ and break⟳ her up for the sake of her timber and old iron⟳.”

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