seabeach

English

Etymology

From sea +‎ beach.

Noun

seabeach (plural seabeaches)

  1. (dated) A beach lying along the sea.
    • 1840 January 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Ballads.] w:The Wreck of the Hesperus.”, in Ballads and Other Poems, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 20, page 47:
      At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, / A fisherman stood aghast, / To see the form of a maiden fair, / Lashed close to a drifting mast.

Derived terms

  • seabeach amaranth

References

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