BREAKER

surf, breaker, breakers

(noun) waves breaking on the shore

breaker, ledgeman

(noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

breaker (plural breakers)

Something that breaks.

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

The building in which such a machine is placed.

A person who specializes in breaking things.

(chiefly, in the plural) 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

(colloquial) A breakdancer.

A user of CB radio.

(primarily plural) Clipping of shipbreaker.

Synonyms

• (something that breaks): destroyer, wrecker

• (machine for breaking rocks or coal)

• (building containing such a machine)

• (wave)

• (breakdancer): B-boy (male), B-girl (female), breakdancer

Etymology 2

Noun

breaker (plural breakers)

A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship's boat in case of shipwreck.

Anagrams

• rebreak

Source: Wiktionary

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Break"er, n.

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

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

3. (Naut.)

Definition: A small water cask. Totten.

4. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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