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  1. \Beach" comb`er\
    A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See {Comber}.
    [Amer.]
    
  2. \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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