2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breaker \Break"er\, n.
1. One who or that which breaks.
I'll be no breaker of the law. --Shak.
2. Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for
breaking coal at the mines; also the building in which
such a machine is placed.
3. (Naut.) A small water cask. --Totten.
4. 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.
--Longfellow.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
breaker
n 1: a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone [syn: {ledgeman}]
2: waves breaking on the shore [syn: {surf}, {breakers}]
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