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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
beachcomber
n : a vagrant living on a beach
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