a. [f. BEACH sb. + -Y1.] Covered with beach (sense 1); pebbly, shingly.

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1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., III. i. 50. The beachie Girdle of the Ocean.

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1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., IV. (1626), 85. Lest the beachy Sands Should hurt the snaky head.

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1734.  Watts, Reliq. Juv. (1789), 213. Smooth pebbles on the beachy shore.

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