A complex of fibers or filaments that have been twisted together to form a cable, rope, thread, or yarn, A wisp or lock of hair, a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides), verb_ bring to the ground, leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue, transitive verb_ To make or form (a rope, for example) by twisting strands together, To break a strand of (a rope, for example), intransitive verb_ To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground, To be stranded, as on a beach. Used of sea animals, To cause (a whale or other sea animal) to be unable to swim free from a beach or from shallow water