Strand

One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

To break a strand of (a rope).

The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.

To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.

To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.

a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"

a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)

leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the travellers were marooned"