Definition of "strand"

strand¹

/stɹænd/

noun
plural strands
1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
  Quotations
  A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.
  1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Second Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814
  They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand.
  1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Sets out as Captain of a Ship. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 159
2. (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
3. A small brook or rivulet.
4. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
5. A street.
verb
third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded
1. (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
3. (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.

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