Breaker

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that breaks, as a machine for breaking up or crushing a substance, such as rock, coal, or plant fibers.
  • n. A circuit breaker.
  • n. A wave that crests or breaks into foam, as against a shoreline.
  • n. One who break dances.
  • n. Nautical A small water cask, often used in lifeboats.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Something that breaks.
  • n. A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines
  • n. The building in which such a machine is placed.
  • n. A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship's boat in case of shipwreck.
  • n. A person who specializes in breaking things.
  • n. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
  • n. A breakdancer.
  • n. A user of CB radio.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, breaks.
  • n. Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
  • n. A small water cask.
  • n. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
  • n. a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who or that which breaks anything, as a machine to crush ores, stones, and other hard substances.
  • n. A violator or transgressor: as, a breaker of the law.
  • n. A wave broken into foam against the shore, a sand-bank, or a rock near the surface: generally in the plural.
  • n. [In this sense perhaps a corruption of Sp.barrica, a keg.] A small water-cask used in boats to supply the crew with water and for ballast.
  • n. A trainer, as of horses of dogs.
  • n.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. waves breaking on the shore
  • n. a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded
  • n. a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone
  • Hypernym
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    Synonym
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    ledgeman    crusher    smasher    brayer    cracker    breakdancer    female    B-girl    male    B-boy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Acre    Baker    Quaker    Shaker    achor    acre    aker    baker    craker    faker   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    surf    billow    reef    waterfall    wave    surge    torrent    shoal    roller    foam