Meaning & use
Beachcomb
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To walk along a beach searching for interesting, useful, or valuable items washed ashore, such as shells or driftwood.
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They spent the morning beachcombing for sea glass after the storm.
Collectors often beachcomb remote shorelines hoping to find rare shells.
A note on using this word
"Beachcomb" is a back-formation from the older noun "beachcomber," which originally described drifters who lived off what they scavenged along Pacific island shores.
Words with a similar meaning
scavengeforage
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