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Beachcomber   Listen
noun
beachcomber  n.  (Written also beach-comber or beach comber)  (Naut.)
1.
A vagrant seaman, usually of low character, who loiters about seaports, particularly on the shores and islands of the Pacific Ocean. "I was fortunate enough, however, to forgather with a Scotchman who was a beach-comber."
2.
A vagrant living on a beach.
3.
A person who searches along a beach for objects of value, such as lost objects or seashells.





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"Beachcomber" Quotes from Famous Books



... beachcomber!" Lask Finneston cried. "The drunken old reprobate! I'd forgotten he was alive. Wonderful constitution. Never drew a sober breath except when he was shipwrecked, and, when I remember him, into every deviltry afloat. He must be going ...
— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London
... Brown, while bargaining, had a sort of grim enjoyment in thinking of his wretched schooner, with nothing but a heap of dirt in her hold, that stood for an armed ship, and a Chinaman and a lame ex-beachcomber of Levuka on board, who represented all his many men. In the afternoon he obtained further doles of food, a promise of some money, and a supply of mats for his men to make shelters for themselves. They lay down and snored, protected from the burning ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad
... one man in the crew Cleigh had begun to dislike intensely, and he had been manoeuvring ever since Honolulu to find a legitimate excuse to give the man his papers. Something about the fellow suggested covert insolence; he had the air of a beachcomber who had unexpectedly fallen into a soft berth, and it had gone to his head. He had been standing watch at the ladder head, and against positive orders he had permitted a visitor to pass him. To Cleigh this was the handle he had been hunting for. ...
— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath
... discharge me at Tahiti. Oh, I know. I saw the long envelope when Lee Goom came over the side. It was from the Governor of California, printed on the corner for any one to see. You'd been working behind my back. Some beachcomber in Honolulu had whispered to you, and you'd written to the Governor to find out. And that was his answer Lee Goom carried out to you. Why didn't you come to me like a man! No, you must play underhand with ...
— The Night-Born • Jack London


Words linked to "Beachcomber" :   floater, vagrant, drifter, vagabond


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