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.
Beach comber \Beach" comb`er\
A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See {Comber}.
[Amer.]