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English
Etymology
From beach + comber.
Noun
beachcomber (plural beachcombers)
- (nautical) A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
- Any loafer around a waterfront.
- A person who collects marine salvage at the coast.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 35: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.
- A long rolling wave of the sea.
Translations
seaman who hangs around port areas living off the charity of others
loafer around a waterfront
person who collectes marine salvage at the coast
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