'Breaker' definitions:
Definition of 'breaker'
(from WordNet)
noun
A quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone [syn: breaker, ledgeman]
noun
noun
A device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded [syn: circuit breaker, breaker]
Definition of 'Breaker'
From: GCIDE
- Breaker \Break"er\, n.
- 1. One who, or that which, breaks. [1913 Webster]
- I'll be no breaker of the law. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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]
- 3. (Naut.) A small water cask. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 5. a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.
- Syn: ledgeman. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'breaker'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- whitecaps