breaker

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: break=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

breaker, n. 

•  One who, or that which, breaks.  [1913 Webster]

  "I'll be no breaker of the law."  [1913 Webster]
•  Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.  [1913 Webster]
•  A small water cask.  Totten.  [1913 Webster]
•  A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.  [1913 Webster]

  "The breakers were right beneath her bows."  [1913 Webster]
•  a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

breaker, n.
1 a person or thing that breaks something, esp. disused machinery.
2 a person who breaks in a horse.
3 a heavy wave that breaks.

THESAURUS

breaker

analyzer, billow, bore, breakers, breeder, broncobuster, buckaroo, cattleman, centrifuge, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, collar, comb, comber, cow keeper, cowman, cutter, dairy farmer, dairyman, dirty water, eagre, equerry, farrier, foam, froth, gravity wave, grazier, groom, ground swell, head, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, horseshoer, hostler, lather, lift, lop, meringue, mousse, offscum, peak, popple, puff, rancher, ranchero, ranchman, riffle, ripple, rise, roll, roller, rough water, scend, scud, scum, sea, sea foam, send, separator, sheepman, sieve, soapsuds, souffle, spindrift, spoondrift, spray, spume, stableboy, stableman, stinging, stock raiser, stockbreeder, stockkeeper, stockman, stripper, suds, surf, surge, swell, tamer, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, trainer, trough, tsunami, undulation, water wave, wave, wavelet, white horses, white water, whitecaps

ROGET THESAURUS

breaker

Traveler

N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.

Island

N island, isle, islet, eyot, ait, holf, reef, atoll, breaker, archipelago, islander, insular, seagirt, archipelagic, Fluids in Motion.