beach

This term, in its ordinary signification, when applied to a place on tide waters means the space between ordinary high and low water mark; or the space over which the tide usually ebbs and flows. It is a term not more significant of a sea margin than "shore."

In common parlance designates that portion of shore consisting generally of sand and pebbles, resulting usually from the action of water, as distinct from the upland, to which it often extends above normal high-water mark. Beach is synonymous with "shore," "strand," or "flats." The term may also include the sandy shore above mean high water which is washed by storms and exceptionally high tides. To "beach" a ship is to run it upon the beach or shore; this is frequently found necessary in case of a fire, leak, etc.

See foreshore

- seashore.

@ public beach

Beach dedicated by governmental body to the common use of the public, which the unorganized public and each of its members have a right to use while it remains such

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