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Beach comber

Beach" comb`er\ A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber. [Amer.]

Beach comber

Beach comber\ [Written also beach-comber.] (Naut.) 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. --F. T. Bullen.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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