a. [f. BEACH sb. + -Y1.] Covered with beach (sense 1); pebbly, shingly.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., III. i. 50. The beachie Girdle of the Ocean.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., IV. (1626), 85. Lest the beachy Sands Should hurt the snaky head.
1734. Watts, Reliq. Juv. (1789), 213. Smooth pebbles on the beachy shore.
