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noun

Breaker n.

One who, or that which, breaks. "I'll be no breaker of the law."

Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.

(Naut.) A small water cask.

A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. "The breakers were right beneath her bows."

A quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.

Synonyms: ledgeman.

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Etymology of 'Breaker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Breaker" Quotes from Famous Books

... fog was clearing away and the sparkle of the distant sea was beginning to show from his window, he rose from his belated breakfast to fetch water from the "breaker" outside, which had to be replenished weekly from Sancelito, as there was no spring in his vicinity. As he opened the door, he was inexpressibly startled by the figure of a young woman standing in front of it, who, however, ...

— Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... dear friends, when I behold these maids, Am visited with sadness deep and strange. Poor friendless beings, in a foreign land Wandering forlorn in homeless orphanhood! Erewhile, free daughters of a freeborn race, Now, snared in strong captivity for life. O Zeus of battles, breaker of the war, Ne'er may I see thee[2] turn against my seed So cruelly; or, if thou meanest so, Let me be spared that sorrow by my death! Such fear in me the sight of these hath wrought. Who art thou, of all damsels most distressed? Single or child-bearing? Thy looks ...

— The Seven Plays in English Verse • Sophocles

... or a stranger, he should cast earth on it three times; and the Romans had a similar law. If a Greek omitted this duty, he was bound to make satisfaction by sacrificing a sow-pig. But some went farther, and insisted that whoever saw a dead body and did not cast dust upon it, was both a law-breaker and an accursed person. The people feared that the gods underground were angry if the dead were left uncovered with their kindred dust. No greater imprecation could have been cast at an enemy than that he might not be covered with the earth. Hence it was that the ancients stood ...

— The Mysteries of All Nations • James Grant

... wooded reach, The fortress and the mountain ridge, The cataract flashing from the bridge, The breaker breaking on the beach." ...

— A Study of Poetry • Bliss Perry

... sail for oars, and it took every ounce of strength and skill on the part of the rowers and Seventh Man to avoid shipwreck. Each breaker as it passed tossed the frail craft skyward, and we fell into the abysses as a rock into a bottomless pit. Every instant it seemed that we must capsize. While we fought thus, in a frenzied effort to keep ...

— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

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