Beach comber \Beach comber\ [Written also {beach-comber}.] (Naut.) A vagrant seaman, usually of low character, who loiters about seaports, particularly on the shores and islands of the Pacific Ocean. I was fortunate enough, however, to forgather with a Scotchman who was a beach-comber. --F. T. Bullen. Beach comber \Beach" comb`er\ A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See {Comber}. [Amer.]