beaches
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
beach/biːtʃ/
▶noun a pebbly or sandy shore at the edge of the sea or a lake. ▶verb bring on to a beach from the water.
■ (with reference to a whale) become or cause to become stranded on a beach.
– origin C16: perh. rel. to OE bæce, bece ‘brook’.
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