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English Dictionary: beachcomber by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beachcomber
n
  1. a vagrant living on a beach
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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