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Breaker   /brˈeɪkər/   Listen
Breaker

noun
1.
A quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.  Synonym: ledgeman.
2.
Waves breaking on the shore.  Synonyms: breakers, surf.
3.
A device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded.  Synonym: circuit breaker.



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"Breaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... young man working as Mr. Gordon's manager, and living with the horse-breaker and the ration-carrier on the out-station at Kuryong (in those days a wild, half-civilised place), he had for neighbours Red Mick's father and mother, the original Mr. and Mrs. Donohoe, and their family. Their eldest daughter, Peggy—"Carrotty Peg," her relations called her—was at that ...
— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson

... from, Into its hollow she drops, Cringes and clears her eyes from The wind-torn breaker-tops, Ere out on the shrieking shoulder Of a hill-high surge she drives. Meet her! Meet her and hold her! Pull for ...
— Songs from Books • Rudyard Kipling

... beautiful, which you can see for yourself before we try to shift its lodging. It is called by a fearfully long scientific name, which to my mind does a positive injury to the poor beast. What do you think of such a jaw-breaker as 'mesembryanthemum,' eh?" ...
— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson

... Rishi ashore. And the Rishi rose from the bank, freed from the cords with which he had tied himself. And because his cords were thus broken off by the violence of the current, the Rishi called the stream by the name of Vipasa (the cord-breaker). For his grief the Muni could not, from that time, stay in one place; he began to wander over mountains and along rivers and lakes. And beholding once again a river named Haimavati (flowing from Himavat) of terrible ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli

... corrugated fire-box, high pressure smoke consumer and sand-jet—jest made a purpose for specials, and pay-car. But if she ain't got herself coupled onto a long-fire-boxed ten-wheeler, with a big lap and a Joy gear, you can put me down for a clinker. Yes, sir; the baby is a heart-breaker on dress-parade, and the ten-wheeler is a whale on business, and if they don't jump the track, you watch out for some express speed that will make the canals sick, see if ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady


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