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Breather   /brˈiðər/   Listen
Breather

noun
2.
Air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time.  Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather.



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"Breather" Quotes from Famous Books



... night-light—she heard the ticking of the watch, and the two breathings, each going on at a separate rate—one hurried, abruptly stopping, and then panting violently, as if to make up for lost time; and the other slow, steady, and regular, as if the breather was asleep; but this supposition was contradicted by an occasional repressed sound of yawning. The sky through the uncurtained window looked dark and black—would this night never have an end? Had the sun gone down for ...
— Ruth • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... stops Of pipe or flute, are absolutely dumb Unless melodious, do you play on me, My pipers, and if, sooth, you did not play, Would no sound come? Or is the music mine; As a man's voice or breath is called his own, Inbreathed by the life-breather? ...
— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins

... that green gloom. But when they worked through to meet rock walls again, the sun said it was well into the after part of the day. They sheltered for a breather under the drooping limbs of one ...
— Voodoo Planet • Andrew North

... them. A 4.2 battery suddenly switched its fire on to the strip of ground we were crossing, and we ran hurriedly for shelter to a trench that lay handy. Shells whistled over our heads, and we panted and mopped our brows while taking a breather. ...
— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)



Words linked to "Breather" :   rest, relief, snorkel breather, breathing place, rest period, airway, schnorchel, submarine, air passage, take a breather, pigboat, breathe, air duct, sub, U-boat, respite



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