GC: n

S: Sea&Job – https://www.seaandjob.com/ship-breaking-on-beaches/ (last access: 12 June 2024); Marinsight – https://www.marineinsight.com/marine-navigation/how-to-do-intentional-grounding-or-beaching-of-a-ship/ (last access: 12 June 2024).

N: 1. – beaching (adj): From verb beach “to haul or run up on a beach,” 1814, from beach (n.). Related: Beached; beaching.

– place (n): c. 1200, “space, dimensional extent, room, area,” from Old French place “place, spot” (12c.) and directly from Medieval Latin placea “place, spot,” from Latin platea “courtyard, open space; broad way, avenue,” from Greek plateia (hodos) “broad (way),” fem. of platys “broad,” from PIE root *plat- “to spread.”

. Unusual, but understandable term.

2. A natural place, spot or site for beaching in case of ships emergency.
The word Beaching is used for such process because the type of emergency grounding is done only in those areas where the ground is of soft mud or sand (as in a Beach) in order to avoid damage to ship’s hull, propeller, rudder etc.

3. Example of “beaching place” before being able to tow the ship to a shipyard or a drydock: a sheltered, gently shelving beach comprising sand or gravel with little or no rocks.

4. Depending on context, the Spanish term varadero in this field could also be an artificial site, and in other fields be polysemic.

S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=beaching+place (last access: 12 June 2024); FCB. 2. Marinsight – https://www.marineinsight.com/marine-navigation/how-to-do-intentional-grounding-or-beaching-of-a-ship/ (last access: 12 June 2024); TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=varadero&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 12 June 2024); FCB. 3. Maritimesa – https://maritimesa.org/nautical-science-grade-11/2020/10/30/beaching/ (last access: 12 June 2024). 4. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=varadero&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 12 June 2024); IATE – https://iate.europa.eu/search/result/1718193346217/1 (last access: 12 June 2024); FCB.

SYN: grounding place (depending on context)

S: GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/26522388/echouage (last access: 13 june 2024); FCB.

CR: dry dock, floating dock, grounding, ocean, sea, shipyard, shoal, stranding, stranding site.