Breaker

/ˈbɹeɪkə/ · noun

Meaning

Something that breaks (something else)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Something that breaks (something else).
2. A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
3. The building in which such a machine is placed.
4. (often plural) A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.
5. (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
6. (colloquial) A breakdancer.
7. (US, dated) A user of CB radio.
8. (electrical engineering) Ellipsis of circuit breaker.

Example Sentences

a breaker of men's souls

at the coal breaker

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

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

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• breakers

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