breaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkə/
enpr: brāʹkər
ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkɚ/
rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: breakers
Etymology: From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.
Senses: examples: text: a breaker of men's souls
synonyms: destroyer
wrecker
glosses: Something that breaks (something else).
coordinate_terms: crusher
dresser#Etymology_2
glosses: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
examples: text: at the coal breaker
text: A: Is John at the tipple? B: No, he's at the breaker today.
glosses: The building in which such a machine is placed.
synonyms: word: scrapper
english: often synonymous
translation: often synonymous
word: wrecker
word: knacker
word: ;
english: their yard
translation: their yard
word: breaker's yard
word: more at wreck yard
glosses: A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.
Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard.
synonyms: word: scrapper
english: often synonymous
translation: often synonymous
word: wrecker
word: knacker
word: ;
english: their yard
translation: their yard
word: breaker's yard
word: more at wreck yard
glosses: A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.
Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard.
examples: text: A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber
ref: 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
text: My beauty endures even as I endure; still, if thou wilt, oh rash man, have thy will; but blame not me if passion mount thy reason, as the Egyptian breakers used to mount a colt, and guide it whither thou wilt not.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: scrapper
english: often synonymous
translation: often synonymous
word: wrecker
word: knacker
word: ;
english: their yard
translation: their yard
word: breaker's yard
word: more at wreck yard
glosses: A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.
Ellipsis of horsebreaker.
examples: text: Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish[…]. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 53, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, pages 279–280:
text: And then went down to the ship,
Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea
ref: 1925, Ezra Pound, Canto I:
text: There came a cry "Oh, there be breakers dead ahead!" / From the collier Nightingale
ref: 1979, Stan Rogers, “The Flowers of Bermuda” (track 6), in Between the Breaks ... Live!, Dundas, Ontario: Fogarty's Cove Music:
glosses: 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
synonyms: B-boy
B-girl
glosses: A breakdancer.
examples: text: Their radios had been blocked by a breaker calling himself Yankee Bucket Mouth.
ref: 2015, Dave Wise, Stuart Wise, Like A Summer With A Thousand Julys:
glosses: A user of CB radio.
examples: text: breaker panel
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Ellipsis of circuit breaker.
Derived terms: backbreaker
ball-breaker
bead breaker
bitch breaker
bladebreaker
breaker bar
breaker boy
breaker-inner
breakerless
breaker's yard
breaker-up
brick breaker
circuit breaker
circuit-breaker
codebreaker
combo breaker
deal breaker
faithbreaker
gaolbreaker
groundbreaker
heart breaker
heartbreaker
homebreaker
horse-breaker
horsebreaker
housebreaker
house-breaker
house breaker
ice-breaker
icebreaker
ice breaker
jailbreaker
jaw-breaker
jawbreaker
law-breaker
lawbreaker
leg breaker
leg-breaker
matchbreaker
middlebreaker
nutbreaker
oathbreaker
pathbreaker
peacebreaker
prison breaker
rulebreaker
Sabbath-breaker
safebreaker
shipbreaker
shopbreaker
slave breaker
stonebreaker
strawbreaker
strikebreaker
sword-breaker
tie-breaker
tie breaker
tiebreaker
trailbreaker
trucebreaker
visbreaker
water breaker
water-breaker
wedbreak
windbreaker
wind breaker
window-breaker