beach

uimaranta, hiekkaranta

ajaa rantaan, vetää maihin, rantautua The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
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A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
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puhekieltä The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
puhekieltä To run aground on a beach.
1941, (w), (w), "Salt Water," http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100131h.html

When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.

It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore.

Great Aías led twelve ships from Sálamis

and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.

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