breaker
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪkə/
The English word “breaker” has 8 meanings listed here.
noun
- Something that breaks (something else).
- A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
- The building in which such a machine is placed.
- 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
- A breakdancer.
- A user of CB radio.
- A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.
interjection
- Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.
Etymology
From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.
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More English words
- breakdown point
- breakdown truck
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- breakee
- breaker bar
- breaker boy
- Breaker Point
- breaker's yard
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