beachcombing

English

Etymology

beach + combing

Noun

beachcombing (countable and uncountable, plural beachcombings)

  1. The lifestyle and habits of a beachcomber.
  2. An item found lying near the sea; marine salvage.
    • 2019, Beth Lynch, Where the Hornbeam Grows: A Journey in Search of a Garden:
      The beachcombings – the wood, the metal, the stones – were more than functional, collected and sorted and arranged as things that were lovely in their own right, artefacts.
    • 2013, James Canton, Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape:
      I wandered along, sifting through the Thames' beachcombings. In a patch of sand lay a section of soft pink roof tile some two inches square or so, and witha peg hole.

Verb

beachcombing

  1. present participle and gerund of beachcomb
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