What is "breakwater"

Usage examples of "breakwater".

Mada and Ave crossed the breakwater and were returning with the board to the crowded beach, Mada felt uneasy.

Many floating bombardons which were not designed for such conditions broke from their moorings and crashed into other breakwaters and the anchored shipping.

I was desired to build the wharves and breakwater at Hyla I found to my dismay that my Greek was no good to me, no good at all, and I was obliged to employ a dragoman at every turn.

The fishing smack commanded by Captain Javel, on entering the harbor was wrecked on the rocks of the harbor breakwater.

On holy days the Kirving family would sometimes walk the long breakwater beyond the glittering wharves where the waves flashed and the buoybells clanged.

In passing the breakwater Bonaparte could not withhold his admiration of that work, which he considered highly honourable to the public spirit of the nation, and, alluding to his own improvements at Cherbourg, expressed his apprehensions that they would now be suffered to fall into decay.

THE Douimz ImAoH 249 V- Bannerman dropped his hands, looked casually over his shoulder, glanced at the breakwater, surveyed the water front.

And McKinnon and Vannier were already making a round of the larger vessels behind the breakwater, checking for radio sets, smashing the magneto of the only other launch in the harbour.

They beached the merchant ship beside the Principessa, at an angle to act as a breakwater, then started to cannibalize the timbers from her hull.

That bright T was even farther round on our starboard side now, but directly in line with us and the patch of dark water to the west of the almost phosphorescently foaming whiteness that marked the point where the flood tide ripped past the outer end of the eastern breakwater.

Pilotfish picked its way toward the breakwater with stadimeter and pelorus.

Providence quaint and lordly on its seven hills over the blue harbour, with terraces of green leading up to steeples and citadels of living antiquity, and Newport climbing wraithlike from its dreaming breakwater.

The storms created some terrifying creatures here before we built the breakwater.

Herald captain , but this breakwater of ours is rather like its namesake-and the more storms that come to wash away at it, the faster it will erode.

What if the spectators who last summer gazed with just pride upon the noble port of Plymouth, its vast breakwater spanning the Sound, its arsenals and docks, its two estuaries filled with gallant ships, and watched the great screw-liners turning within their own length by force invisible, or threading the crowded fleets with the ease of the tiniest boat,--what if, by some magic turn, the nineteenth century, and all the magnificence of its wealth and science, had vanished--as it may vanish hereafter--and they had found themselves thrown back three hundred years into the pleasant summer days of 1588?