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Webster 1913 Edition
Breaker
Break′er
,Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, breaks.
I’ll be no
breaker
of the law. Shakespeare
2.
Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
3.
(Naut.)
A small water cask.
Totten.
4.
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. Longfellow.
Webster 1828 Edition
Breaker
BREAKER
,Noun.
1.
A rock which breaks the waves; or the wave itself which breaks the waves; or the wave itself which breaks against a rock, a sand bank, or the shore, exhibiting a white foam.2.
A pier, mound or other solid matter, placed in a river, to break the floating ice, and prevent it from injuring a bridge below; called also ice-breaker.3.
One that breaks up ground.4.
A destroyer. Micah 2.