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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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v.
See 1958 quote.
See: beachcomber(def. 2)
Quotations
1958
When not fishing, Dogfish Johnny and Crazy George go beach-combing. Which means, simply, that they cruise in and out of all the nearby inlets and coves searching for logs that may have broken away from the big log booms towed down the coast to the sawmills.
1965
A man can make a living at beachcombing. . . . With a fishing boat rigged up to handle logs, we cleared $500 a month.