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Breaker point

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  1. 1
    A point in Shantou, Guangdong, China. obsolete

    "SWATOW. About the 1st of this month, the British barque Sally, Captain Tait, on her voyage from Newchang to, this port, became a total wreck, eight miles N.E. from Cupchi Point. On the 4th, the second mate of the vessel arrived here overland and reported the ship ashore at Breaker Point; in consequence of which H.B.M.’s gunboat Hart left on the Sth, and having gone along the Coast past Breaker Point to Tungoa Road, without seeing anything of the wreck, returned on the 6th."

Noun
  1. 1
    a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs wordnet

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