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Strand   /strænd/   Listen
noun
Strand  n.  One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.


Strand  n.  The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
Strand birds. (Zool.) See Shore birds, under Shore.
Strand plover (Zool.), a black-bellied plover.
Strand wolf (Zool.), the brown hyena.


verb
Strand  v. t.  To break a strand of (a rope).


Strand  v. t.  (past & past part. stranded; pres. part. stranding)  To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.


Strand  v. i.  To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.





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"Strand" Quotes from Famous Books



... he could not stay Within his tent to wait for day; But walked him forth along the sand, Where thousand sleepers strewed the strand. ...
— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper
... the nineteenth century a street near the Strand was the haunt of black women who shaved with ease and dexterity. In St Giles'-in-the-Fields was another female shaver, and yet another woman wielder of the razor is mentioned in the "Topography of London," ...
— At the Sign of the Barber's Pole - Studies In Hirsute History • William Andrews
... moon, and stars give answer; shall we not staunchly stand Even as now, forever, wards of the wilder strand, Sentinels of the stillness, lords of ...
— Giant Hours With Poet Preachers • William L. Stidger
... serpents along the hill-side, destroying vineyard and garden, cottage and chapel, on their downward path. Resina shared the fate of its ancient forerunner Herculaneum, whilst Torre del Greco and Portici suffered severely, as we can see to-day by noting the great masses of lava flung on to the strand at various points. To add to the universal confusion of Nature, the sea, which had now become extraordinarily tempestuous, probably owing to some submarine earthquake-shock, suddenly retreated half a mile from ...
— The Naples Riviera • Herbert M. Vaughan
... stripped Her bird of every caudal feather; A strand of gold-bright hair she clipped, And bound ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


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