beaches

Noun

beach (plural beaches)

1. The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
   • Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
2. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
   • Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son

   Synonyms:

   backshore, sand, strand

3. (Kent, UK, dialectal, Sussex) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
4. (euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap.

   Synonyms:

   gravel trap

5. A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
   • I never realised Lincoln was a seaside town. BRIAN LAWS Scunthorpe manager, after losing on a liberally sanded beach of a pitch2008, Phil Shaw, The Book of Football Quotations, page 415

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