Word Direct Answers

What does "strand" mean?

Strand: One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To break a strand of (a rope).
  2. 3.The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. Chaucer. Strand birds. (Zoöl.) See Shore birds, under Shore. -- Strand plover (Zoöl.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover. -- Strand wolf (Zoöl.), the brown hyena.
  3. 4.To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
  4. 5.To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.

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