Crossword clues for breaker
breaker
- Swell
- With 23-Across, CBer's opening
- A device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded
- A quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone
- Foaming, crashing wave
- Seashore feature
- Challenge to a surfer
- Wave coming ashore
- Quantity of water from river captured in cup
- Wave Muppet Republican inside
- Large wave
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breaker \Break"er\, n.
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One who, or that which, breaks.
I'll be no breaker of the law.
--Shak. Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
(Naut.) A small water cask.
--Totten.-
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.
--Longfellow. -
a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.
Syn: ledgeman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"heavy ocean wave," 1680s, agent noun from break (v.). Related: Breakers.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that breaks. 2 A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines 3 The building in which such a machine is placed. 4 A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship's boat in case of shipwreck. 5 A person who specializes in breaking things. 6 (context chiefly in the plural English) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard 7 (context colloquial English) A breakdancer. 8 A user of CB radio.
WordNet
n. a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone [syn: ledgeman]
a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded [syn: circuit breaker]
Wikipedia
Breaker may refer to:
Breaker is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series. He is the G.I. Joe Team's original communications officer and debuted in 1982.
A breaker is a piece of reef against which waves break.
This sense of the term is closely related to another sense, that of the breaking wave itself. In times past, when ocean navigation was relatively rudimentary, a line of breaking waves was a crucial indicator that a boat was bearing down upon an island or reef. This was especially the case when sailing in darkness, in which the highly visible line of froth caused by breaking waves could be the only such indicator. In such cases the line of breakers was charted and named as a "breaker".
Breaker is the third studio album by Christian metalcore band For Today, released on August 31, 2010.
A breaker is a powerful percussion hammer fitted to an excavator for demolishing concrete structures or rocks. It is powered by an auxiliary hydraulic system from the excavator, which is fitted with a foot-operated valve for this purpose. Additionally, demolition crews employ the hoe ram for jobs too large for jackhammering or areas where blasting is not possible due to safety or environmental issues.
Breakers are often referred to as "hammers", "peckers", "hoe rams" or "hoe rammers." These terms are popular and commonly used amongst construction/ demolition workers.
The first hydraulic breaker "Hydraulikhammer HM 400" was invented in 1967 by German company Krupp (today German company Atlas Copco) in Essen.
Breaker is the third album released by German heavy metal band Accept. It was once again recorded at Delta-Studio in Wilster with Dirk Steffens producing, and was the first Accept album engineered by Michael Wagener. Bassist Peter Baltes sings lead vocal on "Breaking Up Again", and the bridge vocal on "Midnight Highway".
After the unsuccessful attempt at commercialism on I'm a Rebel, Accept decided not to allow any more outside people to influence the band. Pulling together in the midst of a very cold winter, the band members concentrated on making the album they themselves wanted to make. Udo Dirkschneider remembers: "Following our experiences with I'm A Rebel we made it our goal not to be influenced musically by anyone outside of the band this time." Udo believes Breaker is among Accept's best records and marks the beginning of the band's golden era which lasted up until 1985 - the album title would later become the name of Udo's own record company, Breaker Records.
Wolf Hoffmann concurs: "Maybe we knew that the old approach from the record before didn't work very well. So we were saying 'fuck it, let's just do what we think is right. Let's not try to be somebody else, let's not try to have a radio hit anymore.'" The lone possible concession to commercial interests was the upbeat rocker "Midnight Highway", which Wolf described as "sort of a semi-commercial attempt" and "a little too happy for my tastes."
Much of the rest of the album is angry and defiant in tone, especially the profanity-laced "Son of a Bitch". Udo describes that song's lyrics as "absolutely anti record company." Wolf explains why this particular song was the only one to not have its lyrics printed inside the album: "On the initial release we thought it would be a good idea to just put 'Censored' on the liner notes for the song to avoid any controversy. Well, it turns out it caused more controversy that way with everyone wanting to know who censored it." An alternate version titled "Born to Be Whipped" was recorded with tamer lyrics. Wolf explains: "We had to change it because the British were so uptight about this kind of stuff that you couldn't possibly release the record over there with a song called Son of a Bitch."
Breaker is the third studio album by the Boston alternative rock band Vary Lumar. Experiencing a lull in morale following the exit of original guitarist Ben Case, the band found themselves revitalized after a string of singles and performances with new member Christopher G. Brown. Working again with longtime producer Sean McLaughlin at 37' Productions, the band spent much of the Summer of 2014 tracking the album. A successful Kickstarter campaign enabled the album to be released on vinyl.
Breaker was released to local acclaim, with The Boston Herald, The Noise, and DigBoston all praising the energy and composition of the album.
Usage examples of "breaker".
Scholastica avenged me by reproaching her for having obliged me to appear either rude or jealous, or a breaker of my word.
When they were in the boat, they rowed furiously toward the shore, and Nicholas watched with concern as they entered the combers, then shot the breakers to the beach.
I looked seaward where he pointed, and saw the great smoking combers that made the breakers I had been riding look like ripples.
When the storm was at its height, he posted himself on the quarter-deck, and, with book in hand, proceeded to exorcise all the spirits of hell whom he thought he could see in the clouds, and to whom he pointed for the benefit of the sailors who, believing themselves lost, were crying, howling, and giving way to despair, instead of attending to the working of the ship, then in great danger on account of the rocks and of the breakers which surrounded us.
He could not forget his dreamless sleep, or his wonder that the Breakers owned far worse magicks than he feared.
I practised all the arts, which are recommended by elocutionists for this purpose, I rumbled my eloquence standing on the seashore, up to my middle in the breakers.
Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us.
A hundred yards away the inrolling breakers shattered themselves upon randomly scattered rocks, and even where he stood he felt the thin mist of spray upon his face.
The drinking breakers were now full, so Keo was also collecting iron today.
When the breaker opens, electrical power to the electromagnets is shut off, the magnets lose their magnetism, and the latches of the rods open, .
The shutters of her bedchamber, swung and latched open, let in the raw thunder of the breakers churned up by strong winds.
SCRAM breaker--A circuit breaker that interrupts power to the latching electromagnets of the control rod drive mechanisms.
Reaching the water in safety, he plunged right into the breakers and paddled with all his strength from the shore.
Russia had been passed on to the cutout by a woman who freelances for the rezidentura and serves as a circuit breaker between the rezidentura and the cutout.
KGB had built in a circuit breaker between the rezidentura and the cutout who serviced SASHA.