Definition of "beachcomber" [beach• comb•er•beachcomber]

• One who scavenges along beaches or in wharf areas. (noun)
• A seaside vacationer. (noun)

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• "Harris, the beachcomber, is searching for his descendants, to whom she would like to give her finds."
• "So a new idea was born, sometimes called the "beachcomber express," in which the first ex-Africans were seashore dwellers who spread rapidly around the coast of the Indian Ocean, showing an unexpected skill at seafaring to reach Australia across a strait that was at least 40 miles wide."
• "One of them was a runaway sailor, who had been living on the island several years (such being termed a beachcomber), a Portuguese, and six Kanakas, as the natives are called."