Definitions for breaker

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breaker break·er

Spelling: [brey-ker]

IPA: /ˈbreɪ kər/

Breaker is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in breaker (abeekrr).

Definitions for breaker

noun

1. a person or thing that breaks.
2. a wave that breaks or dashes into foam.
3. Citizens Band Radio Slang. a person who indicates a wish to transmit a message, as by breaking in on a channel.
4. Also called breaker strip. Automotive. a strip of fabric under the tread of a pneumatic tire casing, designed to protect the carcass.
5. Textiles. brake1 (def 5). a machine that separates the fiber from foreign matter in preparation for the carding process.
6. Also called prairie breaker. a plow with a long, low moldboard for turning virgin land.
7. Electricity. circuit breaker.
8. Mining. a building where coal delivered from a mine is broken up and sorted. a machine that reduces large lumps of coal or ore to a size that can be accommodated by a conveyor belt.
9. a break dancer.
10. a small water cask for use in a boat.

interjection

1. Citizens Band Radio Slang. (used to announce that a person is about to transmit a message or question on a channel, especially one already in use.)

Origin of breaker

Middle English word dating back to 1125-75; See origin at break, -er¹

Examples for breaker

Not a soul, unless some one saw you coming into the breaker!

Roma was lifted off her feet by the breaker of human beings201 that surged around.

I had two men with me, a bag of biscuits, a few tins of meat, and a breaker of water.

Men and horses dived into the gale as swimmers dive into a breaker.

One part of a breaker is often a hundred or a hundred and fifty feet in height.

“Naming your kid Hunter or breaker is like saying f--k you to the world that invented feminism,” said Richmond.

“If you are breaker of taboos, then anti-Semitism is only another taboo, no different from any other,” she writes.

And from being a keeper of the law he is converted into a breaker of it?

Through sable sea and breaker white, the giant game to play.

Ariana Grande, leader of men and breaker of chains, makes quick work of the sad cages and frees her friends.