Pour me in a washer and I'll cleanse your beach attire, but watch me along the ocean coast and I heed the moon's desire. I roll in and out without feet or door. What am I?
Tide
A play on Tide laundry detergent versus the gravitational ocean tide that rises and recedes along the shore.
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