beachcomber

A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.

The society of beach-combers always repays the small pains you need be at to enjoy it. They are easy of approach and affable in conversation.

Any loafer around a waterfront.

A person who collects marine salvage at the coast.

Now and again a wreck was to be seen, or a vessel left lonely and sad on a reef, her rigging dismantled and only waiting for beachcombers to come and break her up for the sake of her timber and old iron.

A long rolling wave of the sea.

A retreat in Smiths Bay, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.

A private island, one of the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji.