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Beach

[beech]
–noun
1. Alfred Ely, 1826–96, U.S. editor, publisher, and inventor.
2. Amy Marcey Cheney [mahr-see] , 1867–1944, U.S. composer and pianist.
3. Moses Yale, 1800–68, U.S. newspaper publisher.
4. Rex El⋅ling⋅wood [el-ing-wood] , 1877–1949, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
5. Sylvia Woodbridge, 1887–1962, U.S. bookseller and publisher in France.
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Word Origin & History

beach 
c.1535, probably from O.E. bæce, bece "stream," from P.Gmc. *bakiz. The initial extension was to loose, pebbly shores (1596), and in dialect around Sussex and Kent beach still has the meaning "pebbles worn by the waves." Fr. grève shows the same evolution. The verb "to haul or run up on a beach" is first attested 1840. Beach bum first recorded 1962. Beachhead (1940) is on the model of bridgehead.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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