Question

SHARKS TEETH Langston Carter The day we found the sharks' teeth was foggy and cool. Moisture hung in the air so thick you could almost see it sparkling in the dim sunlight. There were days, early in the summer like this one where it seemed there was more water in the air than in the bay. We had beached the boat and stepped out on the recently cleared spit of land. The ground had a light dusting of white sand over an under layer of dried black mud. It looked like a recently frosted chocolate cake, though the frosting was spread a bit thin for my taste. The ground was solid, but we knew from experience that it was full of fiddler crab holes, and would be underwater at the first super-high tide. Mysteriously, to us anyway, someone wanted to build a house there. We often came to these spots to look for artifacts. Our beach, our summer home, had been a fishing camp for as long as anyone living could remember. The oldest stories told of travelers coming down to the edge of the sea, lining up to fill their wagon beds with salted fish to take back home. Old decaying cabins still lined the beach. Rotting nets, hung out to dry in the last century, decorated their weathered walls. Their broken faces spun stories in our minds. The fishermen who, tanned and wrinkled from sun and salt, hauled their nets full of splashing mullet in to cheers from the waiting crowds. The bounty of the sea lightened everyone's hearts, and the smell of roasting fish filled the damp air. Women fanned themselves from wagon seats. Children splashed in the shallow edges of the bay. It was a scene we had acted out as youngsters, building an Imaginary bridge to a life we would never fully know. Read this sentence from the text: We had beached the boat and stepped out on the recently cleared spit of land. What is the best explanation for beached the boat based on the context of this sentence?
Created an anchor for the boat on shore

Not taken the boat on that day

Returned the boat to its harbor

Stopped or parked the boat​

Answer 1

Answer:

Stopped or parked the boat​

Explanation:

When you're unsure about what a word means, you can look it up in a dictionary - an alphabetically arranged listing of words that contains different information about them, including their definitions and how they are used. A dictionary can help us solve this question. According to the Macmillan Dictionary, when used as a verb, the word beach means to take a boat onto dry land.

We can also take a look at the context - words, phrases, and sentences that surround the word we're unsure about. This is how we could get some hints about what it means. After beaching the boat, the narrator tells us that they stepped out on the land and begins describing what it is like. This tells us what the boat is now on stopped/parked on dry land.

This is why the fourth option is the correct one.