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/brˈeɪkər/ Listen

noun

Breaker n.

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

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

(Naut.) A small water cask.

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."

A quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.

Synonyms: ledgeman.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Breaker" Quotes from Famous Books

... listened with interest to our unsophisticated Mabel's account of her Quixotic expedition to what will, I foresee, be the haunted chamber of Ridgeley in the next generation. Her penchant for adventure has, I suspect, embellished her portrait of the hapless house-breaker." ...

— At Last • Marion Harland

... shall they rejoice all the day." There is nothing like sunshine for making the spirits dance! Light is a great emancipator, a great breaker-up of frozen bondages. It thaws "the genial currents of the soul," and the stream of ...

— My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year • John Henry Jowett

... affection, impoverishes and weakens every worldly aim. Therefore let anger be subdued, yield not to the angry impulse; he who can hold his wild and angry heart is well entitled 'illustrious charioteer.' For men call such a one 'illustrious team-breaker' who can with bands restrain the unbroken steed; so anger not subdued, its fire unquenched, the sorrow of repentance burns like fire. A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself first burns his heart, then after burning ...

— Sacred Books of the East • Various

... the songs of Black McTee in the wireless house, and now the big-throated Scotchman swung into a new air, plaintive and rapid in cadence, a death song and a war song at once, the speech of Bruce before Bannockburn, as Burns conceived it. Loud and true rang the voice of Black McTee, breaker ...

— Harrigan • Max Brand

... and a policeman watched me as though I were a house-breaker, and I felt like a fool, but at last, by perseverance and tact, I managed to capture a fairly good specimen of the species, and carried it in my arms to the laboratory with some profanity ...

— The Gold of the Gods • Arthur B. Reeve

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