'Beach comber' definitions:
Definition of 'Beach comber'
From: GCIDE
- Beach comber \Beach" comb`er\ A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber. [Amer., archaic] [1913 Webster +PJC]
Definition of 'beach comber'
From: GCIDE
- beachcomber \beachcomber\ [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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- I was fortunate enough, however, to forgather with a Scotchman who was a beach-comber. --F. T. Bullen. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. a vagrant living on a beach. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. a person who searches along a beach for objects of value, such as lost objects or seashells. [PJC]