the bed of pebbles on the beach

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• beach — [16] Beach is a mystery word. When it first turns up, in the dialect of the southeast corner of England, it means ‘shingle’; and since long stretches of the seashore in Sussex and Kent are pebbly, it is a natural extension that the word for… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

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