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A retreat in Smiths Bay, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.
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A private island, one of the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji.
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A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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Any loafer around a waterfront.
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A person who collects marine salvage at the coast.
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A long rolling wave of the sea.
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a vagrant living on a beach
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bheg-der. Proto-Germanic *bakiz Proto-West Germanic *baki Old English bæċ Middle English bache English beach English comber English beachcomber From beach + comber.
Across languages
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
