From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbeachcomberbeach‧comb‧er /ˈbiːtʃˌkəʊmə $ -ˌkoʊmər/ noun [countable] BODLOsomeone who searches beaches for interesting or useful things
Examples from the Corpus
beachcomber• Let me finish by reminding you that, like successful detectorists, beachcombers work with nature.• Further along the shore a few beachcombers were bunkered down, husking washed-up coconuts for copra; others collected shellfish.• As well as keeping their eyes peeled for surface coins and jewellery, beachcombers also look for non-metal items on their foreshore hunting grounds.• Jason Purvis, the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame.• Attracted by its unusual colour and shape the beachcomber picked it up. 