[f. STRAND v.1 + -ED.] That has been driven ashore; that has run aground.
1703. Prior, Ode to Mem. Col. George Villiers, 43. Some from the stranded Vessel force their Way.
1729. Pope, Dunc., II. 287. He … climb’d a stranded lighter’s height, Shot to the black abyss, and plung’d downright.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., III. i. [They] Wait on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks.
1872. Earl of Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley, S. Sea Bubbles, i. 9. The only thing then to be done is to lie quietly where you are, like a stranded whale.
1911. A. Plummer, Churches Brit. bef. A.D. 1000, I. iv. 122. The stranded vessel was got off the beach.
b. transf. and fig. (Cf. STRAND v.1 2.)
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven. (1874), I. i. 24. [The works of Claude and the Poussins] may be left without grave indignation to their poor mission of furnishing drawing-rooms and assisting stranded conversation.
1869. Lecky, Europ. Mor., I. i. 89. Some stranded nation apart from all the flow of enterprise and knowledge.
1885. Pall Mall Gaz., 19 Feb., 5/1. The author … is already favourably known … for his finished pictures of this strange, stranded old-French life.
1901. Scotsman, 5 Nov., 6/8. The fog lifted a little and the immense array of stranded omnibuses and vans would be able to find their way home.
