Word: beachcombing
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: beach
co
mbing
Definition: An item found lying near the sea; marine salvage.
Morphemes:
Affix: beach
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: bache, bæcche
Language: enm
Decoded: bache, baecche
Meaning: bank, sandbank
Affix: comb
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form uncountable nouns from various parts of speech denoting materials or systems of objects considered collectively.