1. beachcomber - Noun
2. Beachcomber - Proper noun
a vagrant living on a beach
Source: WordNetBlair and Dawn Witherington (2007), Florida's Living Beaches, A Guide for the Curious Beachcomber, (Pineapple Press) Beaches and recreation History A popular Victorian seaside resort. Source: Internet
“Beachcomber II” heads back into the water after a month beached on Boardwalk Boulevard. Source: Internet
It continues to the present day in much the same format, but is now entitled "Beachcomber", not "By the Way". Source: Internet
The column is unsigned except by "Beachcomber" and it was not publicly known that Morton or Wyndham-Lewis wrote it until the 1930s. Source: Internet