BREAKER

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One who, or that which, breaks. I'll be no breaker of the law. Shak.

2.
n.

Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.

3.
n.

A small water cask. Totten.

4.
n.

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.


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