Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.
Breaker to the Bandit1977, Smokey and the Bandit, spoken by Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason):
breaker one nine
From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.
a breaker of men's souls
at the coal breaker
A: Is John at the tipple? B: No, he's at the breaker today.
My beauty endures even as I endure; still, if thou wilt, oh rash man, have thy will; but blame not me if passion mount thy reason, as the Egyptian breakers used to mount a colt, and guide it whither thou wilt not.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish[…]. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 53, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, pages 279–280:
And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea1925, Ezra Pound, Canto I:
There came a cry "Oh, there be breakers dead ahead!" / From the collier Nightingale1979, Stan Rogers, “The Flowers of Bermuda” (track 6), in Between the Breaks ... Live!, Dundas, Ontario: Fogarty's Cove Music:
Their radios had been blocked by a breaker calling himself Yankee Bucket Mouth.2015, Dave Wise, Stuart Wise, Like A Summer With A Thousand Julys:
breaker panel
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tie-breaker · stonebreaker · shopbreaker · brick breaker · breaker-inner · nutbreaker · trucebreaker · ball-breaker · icebreaker · gaolbreaker · jaw-breaker · sword-breaker · jailbreaker · housebreaker · leg breaker · prison breaker · safebreaker · heartbreaker · combo breaker · breaker-up · shipbreaker · homebreaker · peacebreaker · breaker's yard · circuit breaker · tiebreaker · slave breaker · law-breaker · middlebreaker · bead breaker · heart breaker · strawbreaker · circuit-breaker · horsebreaker · deal breaker · visbreaker · breakerless · backbreaker · bladebreaker · strikebreaker · oathbreaker · Sabbath-breaker · wind breaker · groundbreaker · house breaker · tie breaker · windbreaker · codebreaker · matchbreaker · bitch breaker · leg-breaker · house-breaker · lawbreaker · ice-breaker · breaker bar · pathbreaker · window-breaker · faithbreaker · water-breaker · water breaker · wedbreak · horse-breaker · rulebreaker · ice breaker · jawbreaker · trailbreaker · breaker boy
destroyer · wrecker · scrapper · wrecker · more at wreck yard · wrecker · wrecker · scrapper · knacker · breaker's yard · scrapper · B-girl · breaker's yard · more at wreck yard · knacker · breaker's yard · B-boy · knacker · more at wreck yard
gd stuagh (wave) · fi hyökyaalto (wave) · ga maidhm thoinne (wave) · ga maidhm (wave) · ru уничтожи́тель (something that breaks) · nn styrtsjø (wave) · gd garbh-thonn (wave) · grc ῥηγμῑ́ν (wave) · bg трошачка (machine for breaking rocks or coal) · mr तोडणारा (something that breaks) · pl budynek z maszyną łamiącą kamienie (building containing such a machine) · ja 破壊者 (something that breaks) · ru буру́н (wave) · fr casseur (something that breaks) · bg буренце (small cask of water in case of shipwreck) · de Kaputtmacher (something that breaks) · it cavallone (wave) · cy beiston (wave) · pl łamacz (something that breaks) · cy moryn (wave) · gd bàirlinn (wave) · fi murskain (something that breaks) · ota طالاز (wave) · nn brottsjø (wave) · pl baryłka ratunkowa (small cask of water in case of shipwreck) · mr तोडणारे (something that breaks) · az ləpədöyən (wave) · pl maszyna łamiąca kamienie (machine for breaking rocks or coal) · fi murskaaja (something that breaks) · da styrtsø (wave) · ru дроби́лка (machine for breaking rocks or coal) · fr brisant (wave) · mr भंजक (machine for breaking rocks or coal) · ru дроби́лка (building containing such a machine) · gd bodha (wave) · grc θραύστης (something that breaks) · pl grzywacz (wave) · it maroso (wave) · is brimgarður (wave) · uk прибій (wave) · mr तोडणारी (something that breaks) · fr concasseuse (machine for breaking rocks or coal) · is brotsjór (wave) · es cachón (wave) · fo brotasjógvur (wave) · mi tūātea (wave) · sv brottsjö (wave) · ru разруши́тель (something that breaks) · de Brecher (wave) · de Brecher (machine for breaking rocks or coal) · uk бурун (wave) · fr lame (wave) · grc ῥόθιον (wave) · pl bałwan (wave) · mi puhitai (wave) · bg разбиваща се вълна (wave) · nb styrtsjø (wave) · ja 破砕機 (machine for breaking rocks or coal) · ru анкеро́к (small cask of water in case of shipwreck) · fi murskain (machine for breaking rocks or coal) · nb brottsjø (wave) · sa दर्मन् (something that breaks) · ro concasor (machine for breaking rocks or coal)
Probably from Spanish barrica (“barrel”). Doublet of barrique.
Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
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