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Seashore feature
Answer for the clue "Seashore feature ", 7 letters:
breaker
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Word definitions for breaker in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone [syn: ledgeman ] waves breaking on the shore [syn: surf , breakers ] a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded [syn: circuit breaker ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"heavy ocean wave," 1680s, agent noun from break (v.). Related: Breakers .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.