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beach

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1. beach - Noun

2. beach - Verb

3. Beach - Proper noun

Meaning

Pebbles, collectively; shingle.

The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.

To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. Loren Eiseley

Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach.... Jack Kerouac

He who wanders along the beach doesn't eat his rice dry. African Proverb

The heart is but the beach beside the sea that is the world. Chinese Proverb

A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea. Dutch Proverb

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