beachern.
/ˈbiːtʃə/ Used occasionally in various (chiefly slang) senses (see quots.).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > other specific mine workers
chipper1747
blaster1776
tributor1778
striker1824
shifter1830
bandsman1852
back-shift1860
drifter1864
metal man1883
stower1886
wagoner1886
hard rock1922
beacher1923
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > holiday-making or tourism > [noun] > holiday-maker or tourist > types of
waterer1776
summer boarder1826
honeymooner1832
weekender1880
beacher1923
visiting fireman1926
beach boy1939
ecotourist1985
dark tourist2000
society > leisure > [noun] > leave of absence > for sailors
shore leave1593
liberty1758
run1821
shore liberty1906
beacher1946
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > other
way1578
wake1753
clean, clear breach1867
feather-spray1867
south-western1872
bow-wave1877
gravity wave1877
blind roller1888
gravitational wave1899
Kelvin wave1922
rooster tail1934
slide1935
bow shock1938
beacher1956
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > types or parts of wave
pounder1927
dumper1933
take-off1935
greeny1940
beach break1954
beacher1956
big kahuna1959
greenback1959
close out1962
curl1962
shore break1962
shoulder1962
soup1962
tube1962
wall1962
face1963
peak1963
pipeline1963
set1963
reef break1965
surfable wave1965
point break1966
green room1968
slide1968
barrel1975
left-hander1980
A-frame1992
1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter ii. 37 She does nothing with a passivity wonderful in a girl of her age, neither looking at her fellow beachers..or playing with the children.
1930 J. R. Elder Goldseekers in N.Z. iv. 155 On this..beach he found..a number of miners who worked..amid the black-iron sands to be found on the beaches... Many of these ‘beachers’ or ‘surfacers’ had prospected the whole southern part.
1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 28 Beacher, a trip ashore, on liberty.
1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise xviii. 166 This body-surfing is exclusively an Australian development... It needs..practice if you want to show off..shooting a ‘beacher’ on your back. The beacher..takes you from deep water right to the shallows.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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