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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun breaker has 3 senses
- breaker(n = noun.person) ledgeman - a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone; Array is a kind of quarrier, quarryman
- breaker(n = noun.event) breakers, surf - waves breaking on the shore; Array is a kind of moving ridge, wave
- breaker(n = noun.artifact) circuit breaker - a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded; Array is a kind of electrical fuse, fuse, safety fuse
has particulars: stone breaker
Derived forms verb break5, verb break43
Derived form verb break20
Derived form verb break48
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breaker, n.
- One who, or that which, breaks. [1913 Webster]"I'll be no breaker of the law." [1913 Webster]
- Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed. [1913 Webster]
- A small water cask. Totten. [1913 Webster]
- A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. [1913 Webster]"The breakers were right beneath her bows." [1913 Webster]
- a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
breaker, n.
1 a person or thing that breaks something, esp. disused machinery.
2 a person who breaks in a horse.
3 a heavy wave that breaks.
1 a person or thing that breaks something, esp. disused machinery.
2 a person who breaks in a horse.
3 a heavy wave that breaks.
THESAURUS
breaker
analyzer, billow, bore, breakers, breeder, broncobuster, buckaroo, cattleman, centrifuge, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, collar, comb, comber, cow keeper, cowman, cutter, dairy farmer, dairyman, dirty water, eagre, equerry, farrier, foam, froth, gravity wave, grazier, groom, ground swell, head, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, horseshoer, hostler, lather, lift, lop, meringue, mousse, offscum, peak, popple, puff, rancher, ranchero, ranchman, riffle, ripple, rise, roll, roller, rough water, scend, scud, scum, sea, sea foam, send, separator, sheepman, sieve, soapsuds, souffle, spindrift, spoondrift, spray, spume, stableboy, stableman, stinging, stock raiser, stockbreeder, stockkeeper, stockman, stripper, suds, surf, surge, swell, tamer, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, trainer, trough, tsunami, undulation, water wave, wave, wavelet, white horses, white water, whitecapsROGET THESAURUS
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Traveler
N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.Island
N island, isle, islet, eyot, ait, holf, reef, atoll, breaker, archipelago, islander, insular, seagirt, archipelagic, Fluids in Motion.
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