Breaker : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Breaker	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Breaker
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
breaker n a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone [syn: breaker, ledgeman] waves breaking on the shore Synonym(s): surf, breaker, breakers a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded Synonym(s): circuit breaker, breaker
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breaker \Break"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, breaks. I'll be no breaker of the law. --Shak. 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.