breaker

noun

1. 1

   Something that breaks (something else).

   a breaker of men's souls

2. 2

   A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.

3. 3

   The building in which such a machine is placed.

   at the coal breaker

   A: Is John at the tipple? B: No, he's at the breaker today.

4. 4

   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

   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.

   And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea

   There came a cry "Oh, there be breakers dead ahead!" / From the collier Nightingale

5. 5

   A breakdancer.

6. 6

   datedA user of CB radio.

   Their radios had been blocked by a breaker calling himself Yankee Bucket Mouth.

7. 7

   Variant of shipbreakerA person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard. Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard.

8. 8

   Variant of car breakerA person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard. Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard.

9. 9

   Variant of horsebreakerA person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard. Ellipsis of horsebreaker.

   A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber

   My beauty endures even as I endure; still, if thou wilt, oh rash man, have thy will; but blame not me if passion mount thy reason, as the Egyptian breakers used to mount a colt, and guide it whither thou wilt not.

10. 10

    Variant of circuit breakerEllipsis of circuit breaker.

    breaker panel

interjection

1. 1

   datedUsed to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.

   breaker one nine

   Breaker to the Bandit

noun

1. 1

   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.

Forms

plural

breakers