Meaning of Breaker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that breaks (something else).
2. A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.
3. A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
4. The building in which such a machine is placed.
5. A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, often, plural
6. Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, often, plural
7. Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, often, plural
8. Ellipsis of horsebreaker.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, often, plural
9. 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
10. A breakdancer.
    colloquial
11. A user of CB radio.
    US, dated
12. Ellipsis of circuit breaker.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Equivalents

Examples

“a breaker of men's souls”

“at the coal breaker”

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

“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.”

“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”

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

“breaker panel”

“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.”

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