Breaker
Break·er
Breaker
n.
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One who, or that which, breaks.
I'll be no breaker of the law.
- Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
- A small water cask. (Naut.)
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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.
- a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.