noun

• (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
• (motor racing, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap.
• (sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
  "I never realised Lincoln was a seaside town. BRIAN LAWS Scunthorpe manager, after losing on a liberally sanded beach of a pitch"

verb

• (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
  "When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea."
• (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
  "It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore."
• (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.