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.