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Breaker
Definitions
- 1 Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio. US, dated
"breaker one nine"
- 1 Something that breaks (something else).
"a breaker of men's souls"
- 2 A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.
"Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks."
- 3 a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded wordnet
- 4 A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
- 5 waves breaking on the shore wordnet
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- 6 The building in which such a machine is placed.
"at the coal breaker"
- 7 a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone wordnet
- 8 A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.; Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, often, plural
- 9 A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.; Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, often, plural
- 10 A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.; Ellipsis of horsebreaker. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, often, plural
"A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber"
- 11 A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard in-plural
"Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish[…]. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef."
- 12 A breakdancer. colloquial
- 13 A user of CB radio. US, dated
"Their radios had been blocked by a breaker calling himself Yankee Bucket Mouth."
- 14 Ellipsis of circuit breaker. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"breaker panel"
Etymology
From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.
From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.
Probably from Spanish barrica (“barrel”). Doublet of barrique.
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