Breaker

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. One who or that which breaks anything, as a machine to crush ores, stones, and other hard substances.
  • noun. A violator or transgressor: as, a breaker of the law.
  • noun. A wave broken into foam against the shore, a sand-bank, or a rock near the surface: generally in the plural.
  • noun. [In this sense perhaps a corruption of Sp.barrica, a keg.] A small water-cask used in boats to supply the crew with water and for ballast.
  • noun. A trainer, as of horses of dogs.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who, or that which, breaks.
  • noun. Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
  • noun. A small water cask.
  • noun. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
  • noun. a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Something that breaks.
  • noun. A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines
  • noun. The building in which such a machine is placed.
  • noun. A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship's boat in case of shipwreck.
  • noun. A person who specializes in breaking things.
  • noun. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
  • noun. A breakdancer.
  • noun. A user of CB radio.
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  • noun. waves breaking on the shore
  • noun. a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded
  • noun. a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone
  • Word Usage
    "If your main breaker is a 2 pole breaker, this is most certainly what you have."
    Hypernym
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    Acre  Baker  Quaker  Shaker  achor  
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    billow  boulder  cataract  cliff  dune  
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    B-boy  B-girl  analyzer  billow  bore