surf-beatadj.
/ˈsəːfbiːt/, U.S. /ˈsərfˌbit/ Chiefly poetic. Now rare.
Esp. of a shore: lashed or washed by the surf. Cf. surf-beaten adj. at surf n. Compounds 1a(c), sea-beat adj.
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1762 F. Hopkinson Science sig. B Moon-light wandring by the Surf-beat Shoar.
1786 Asylum for Fugitive Pieces II. 238 Along the surf beat strand..I led the weeping band.
1867 G. W. Patten Voices of Border 181 The blast Struck rudely on a surf-beat shore.
1893 W. Smith in G. B. S. Douglas Contemp. Sc. Verse 96 On its surf-beat rocky shore The eerie legend lingers long.
1896 F. Stearns List Duplicates of Japanese Shells 7/2 Surf beat black lava ledge; three miles east of Diamond Head.
1920 W. C. Thorley Fleurs-de-Lys vi. 254 And I upon this surf-beat Breton strand Have breathed the truant breezes that once fanned The bud that in America was blown.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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