to run, drive, or cause (a ship) to drift onto a shoreto leave (a person) in a strange or unfavourable place, esp without funds or means to depart
any of the threads, strings, or wires twisted or laid parallel to make a cord, rope, or cablesomething, e.g. a molecular chain, resembling thisa string of beads a strand of pearlsany of the elements interwoven in a complex whole follow the strands of the story [Middle English; earlier history unknown]