break-comb. form

Stress is often attracted to this combining form.

Etymology: < break v.

1. With verb + object.

a. Forming nouns.

(a)

break-away n.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkəweɪ/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkəˌweɪ/

ΚΠ

1881 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland II. xxix. 133 One of the men..has managed to stop the break-aways.

(b)

break-bones n.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkbəʊnz/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌboʊnz/

the Ossifrage or Osprey.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Pandionidae (osprey)

pygarga1398

ospreyc1450

ospring1530

water eagle1562

bone-breaker1598

ospringer?1611

ossifrage1658

fish-eagle1678

fishing hawk1694

fishing eaglea1792

eagle fisher1801

fish-hawk1808

break-bones1838

1838 E. A. Poe Narr. A. G. Pym in Wks. (1864) IV. 123 It is frequently called the break-bones, or osprey peterel.

break-bulk n.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkbʌlk/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌbəlk/

one who breaks bulk, a captain that abstracts part of his cargo.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > other types of defrauder or swindler

leger1591

concealer1597

break-bulk1622

bug hunter1725

land-shark1769

Morocco man1796

land-cook1807

nob-pitcher1819

bubble-man1862

scuttler1869

lumberer1897

prop man1966

1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xlv. 113 To smother their owne disloyalties, in suffering these breake-bulks to escape.

break-circuit n.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkˌsəːkɪt/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌsərkət/

a device for opening and closing an electric circuit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > circuit-breaker > [noun]

contact-breaker1838

cutout1874

safety fuse1882

break-circuita1884

fuse1884

contactor1910

oil circuit-breaker1916

tapping key1916

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 130/2 Break-circuit, an arrangement on an electro-magnetic or magneto-electric instrument, by which an operator can open or close the circuit at pleasure.

break-club n.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkklʌb/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌkləb/

Golf any obstacle on which the player might break his club.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > hazards

hazard1744

blind hazard1816

bunker1824

sand-bunker1824

sand1842

break-club1857

water hazard1889

trap1890

casual water1899

pot bunker1899

sand-trap1922

1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 67 Lifting ofBreak-clubs.—All loose impediments within twelve inches of the ball may be removed on or off the course when the ball lies on grass.

† break-forward n. Obsolete an alleged old name of the hare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare)

harea700

wimountc1280

wood-catc1280

babbart?a1300

ballart?a1300

bigge?a1300

goibert?a1300

grasshopper?a1300

lightfoot?a1300

long-ear?a1300

make-fare?a1300

pintail?a1300

pollart?a1300

purblind?a1300

roulekere?a1300

scot?a1300

scotewine?a1300

side-looker?a1300

sitter?a1300

westlooker?a1300

wort-cropper?a1300

break-forwardc1300

broom-catc1300

swikebertc1300

cawel-herta1325

deuberta1325

deudinga1325

fern-sittera1325

fitelfoota1325

foldsittera1325

furze cata1325

scutardea1325

skikarta1325

stobherta1325

straw deera1325

turpina1325

skulker1387

chavarta1400

soillarta1400

waldeneiea1400

scutc1440

coward1486

wata1500

bawtiec1536

puss1575

watkin1585

malkin1706

pussy1715

bawd1785

lion1825

dew-hopper-

c1300 Names of Hare in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 13 The make-fare, the breke-forwart.

† break-gap n. Obsolete that which opens a passage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > [noun] > action or process of opening > one who or that which opens > that which opens a gap

break-gap1662

1662 J. Heath in Pagitt's Heresiogr. (new ed.) Ep. Ded. J. Frederick sig. π4 The break gap to all those mischiefs that flowed in upon the King.

† break-hedge n. Obsolete a trespasser.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > trespass > one who

trespasserc1455

break-hedge1573

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 13^v Keepe safely thy fence, skare breake hedge thence.

† break-league n. Obsolete a breaker of a league or treaty.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > treaty > breaking a treaty > one who

break-league1582

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 80 Al faythlesse break leages.

† break-love n. Obsolete a disturber or destroyer of love.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > disturber or destroyer of love

break-love1582

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. T. More in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 99 Lyke a breaklooue mak'bat adultrer.

† break-net n. Obsolete the dogfish or thresher.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > family Scyliorhinidae > dogfish

sea-houndc1330

houndfishc1386

hussc1440

dogfishc1450

break-net1585

sea-dog1601

rough hound1602

hound1603

mallet-fish1611

dogship1623

morgya1667

gobbag1716

bone dog1825

roussette1844

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator Breakenet, a sea~dog or dogfishe.

1623 J. Minsheu Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Lamia A certaine dog-fish called a Breaknet.

† break-peace n. Obsolete a peace-breaker.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > one who creates a disturbance or rioter

hurlerc1440

sturblerc1440

perturbera1450

riotora1450

frayera1513

peace-breaker?1533

perturbatora1538

interturber1538

rioter1543

router1584

break-peace1593

roarer1622

uproarer1629

mobber1744

riotist1831

1593 Passionate Morrice in Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 73 Our only breakepeace.

† break-promise n. Obsolete a promise-breaker.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unfaithfulness > unfaithful person > [noun] > breaking promise

break-vow1582

oath-breaker1601

break-promisea1616

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > [noun] > breach of pledge or agreement > one who

warlockOE

prevaricatora1500

league breaker1561

break-vow1582

oath-breaker1601

break-promisea1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 182 I will thinke you the most patheticall breake-promise .

† break-pulpit n. Obsolete a boisterous preacher.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > boisterous, violent

Boanergesc1384

break-pulpit1589

thump-cushion1827

dustman1877

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome F Som of our bishops are very great breakepulpits.

† break-vow n. Obsolete a breaker of vows.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unfaithfulness > unfaithful person > [noun] > breaking promise

break-vow1582

oath-breaker1601

break-promisea1616

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > [noun] > breach of pledge or agreement > one who

warlockOE

prevaricatora1500

league breaker1561

break-vow1582

oath-breaker1601

break-promisea1616

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 77 This breakuow naughtye.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. ii. 570 That Broker, that still breakes the pate of faith, That dayly breake-vow .

breakwind n.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkwɪnd/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌwɪnd/

(a) dialect a disease of sheep; (b) a screen or protection against the wind; cf. wind-break n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > against weather or storms

screen1538

tent1572

shelter1585

sconce1591

shade1624

bothy1750

breakwind1823

watershed1831

1823 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. 110 It never saw either braxy or breakwind.

1833 in W. S. Ramson Austral. Eng. (1966) 95 Breakwind.

1862 J. S. Dobie Jrnl. 26 Sept. in S. Afr. Jrnl. (1945) 32 A tarpaulin hung on weather side for a breakwind.

1863 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 282/2 What the Australians call a ‘breakwind’, i.e., a pent roof, looking like the falling flap of a large bird-trap.

1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 317/2 The Norway maple..is a hardy tree, used as a breakwind in exposed situations on the east coast.

1890 Athenæum 18 Oct. 516/1 [Tasmanians] were frequently content with a mere break-wind in lieu of any covered structure.

1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails 135 Two sheets of bark had been raised as a break-wind.

1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. vii. 54 The only form of shelter I needed was a small breakwind.

b. Forming adjectives. See also break-back adj., breakneck adj.

break-axe adj.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkaks/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌæks/

that breaks axes, as in break-axe tree Sloanea Jamaicensis.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies

sweetwood1607

mastic1657

acajou1666

bastard locust tree1670

alligator wood1696

muskwood1696

lancewood1697

rodwood1716

cog-wood1725

soapwood1733

down tree?1740

pigeon plum1743

break-axe tree1756

horse-wood1756

loblolly whitewood1756

Spanish elm1756

trumpet-tree1756

ahuehuete1778

ocote1787

locust tree1795

Madeira wood1796

peroba1813

roble1814

louro1816

cecropia1824

purple heart1825

wallaba1825

trumpet-wood1836

gumbo-limbo1837

poui1838

quebracho1839

snake-wood1843

yacca1843

horseflesh wood1851

necklace tree1858

Honduras rosewood1860

turanira1862

softwood1864

wattle-wood1864

balsa tree1866

primavera1871

rauli1874

lemon-wood1879

wheel-tree1882

Spanish stopper1883

gurgeon-stopper1884

pinkwood-tree1884

stopper1884

sloth-tree1885

imbaubaa1893

Spanish cedar1907

amarant1909

Parana pine1916

imbuya1919

mastic-bully1920

banak1921

timbo1924

becuiba1934

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 250 The Brake-axe Tree... It is..so very hard, that it is found a difficult matter even to cut it down.

break-bone adj.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkbəʊn/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌboʊn/

bone-breaking, as in break-bone fever, the dengue, an infectious eruptive fever of warm climates; also elliptical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > dengue

dandy1828

dengue1828

break-bone fever1862

three-day fever1897

o'nyong-nyong1960

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > dengue

dandy1828

dengue1828

break-bone fever1862

three-day fever1897

o'nyong-nyong1960

1862 N.Y. Tribune 16 May Another fever, to which the natives [of the south-western United States] give the name..of Breakbone.

1866 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. 809 Acute, often excruciating, pains in the head, eyes, muscles of the neck, loins, and extremities are prominent traits of the affection; hence the name breakbone fever.

1885 A. Brassey In Trades 395 A ship with several cases of ‘Dengue’, or ‘Breakbone fever’ on board.

break-covert adj.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkˌkʌvət/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌkəvərt/

/ˈbreɪkˌkoʊvərt/

that breaks covert.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > [adjective]

restayeda1425

setting1551

retrieving1634

scenting1749

tying1781

break-covert1820

roadingc1880

1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 63 The break-covert blood-hounds.

† break-dance adj. Obsolete disturbing, turbulent.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective]

wildc1000

unthewedc1175

wanton?a1300

rabbisha1387

irregular1395

inordinate1398

unruly1400

misgoverned?a1425

misruled?a1425

misruly?a1425

unruleful1439

seditious1447

rulelessc1460

turbulous1527

undaunted1533

turbulent1538

unordinate1561

rowsey1565

misorderlya1568

disruly1570

rabbling1575

disorderous1579

irregulate1579

disorderly1585

break-dance1587

willyart?1590

unguided1600

inorderly1606

anarchial1609

irregulousa1616

unmasterlya1623

uncomposed1631

obstreperous1641

disriegled1657

ranting1658

rantipole1660

reuling1691

shandy1691

rumblegarie1722

randy1723

obstropolous1727

wanruly1773

polrumptious1787

ree-raw1800

rambunctious1830

roid1874

unordered1929

rogue1948

1587 J. Hooker in tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland Ep. Ded. sig. Aij^v, in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II This brainesicke and breakedanse Girald of Desmond..did breake into treasons.

break-teeth adj.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪktiːθ/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌtiθ/

(also break-tooth) difficult to pronounce.

ΚΠ

1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Break-teeth Words, hard words, difficult to pronounce.

1825 H. Wilson Mem. I. 48 Not to put in any break-teeth long words.

1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 11 Feb. (1941) 21 The Admiral with the break-tooth name.

2. With the verb used attributively = breaking adj.

break crop n.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪk krɒp/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪk ˌkrɑp/

in arable farming: a different kind of crop sown to break the continuity in repeated sowing of cereals.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > other crops

fleece1513

white crop1743

green crop1744

root crop1772

row crop1776

robber1777

mix-grass1778

breaking-crop1808

industrial crop1818

foliage crop1831

kharifa1836

scourge-crop1842

overcrop1858

by-crop1880

coppice-with-standards1882

sewage grass1888

trap-crop1899

cleaning crop1900

nurse crop1907

cover crop1909

smother crop1920

stoop crop1928

snatch crop1937

break crop1967

wholecrop1968

1967 Punch 10 May 687/2 Other..break crops include roots, oats, and oil seed rape.

1971 Country Life 23 Sept. 771/1 The break crop was needed firstly to restore the drain on fertility as a result of successive cereal crops.

1984 ‘D. Archer’ Ambridge Years 114 Rape provides a very useful ‘break crop’ by preventing some of the diseases you can get if you plant corn over and over again on the same land.

break-dancer n.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkˌdɑːnsə/

/ˈbreɪkˌdansə/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌdænsər/

ΚΠ

1982 Village Voice (N.Y.) 31 Aug. 55/2 Men in battery-powered visors lit up and dimmed,..break dancers broke.

1985 Sunday Tel. 3 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 32/4 The streets of New York and Los Angeles might twitch with coke-sniffers, break-dancers and the denizens of the eighties, but the old America was not dead yet.

breakdancing n.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkˌdɑːnsɪŋ/

/ˈbreɪkˌdansɪŋ/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌdænsɪŋ/

originally U.S. a style of dancing popularized by African Americans, often individual or competitive, and characterized by a loud insistent beat to which dancers perform energetic and acrobatic movements, sometimes spinning around on their backs on the pavement or floor (pioneered during the late 1970s by teams of African-American teenaged dancers in the south Bronx, New York).

ΚΠ

1982 Village Voice (N.Y.) 21 Sept. 61/1 The Smurf is a fusion dance..a dance incorporating smoothed out elements of break dancing.

1983 Daily News 23 Sept. 18 They are young street dudes, nearly all of them black, anywhere from 10 to 23 years old, and what they are doing is a new style of dancing known as ‘breaking’ or ‘break dancing’. It is the first new dance phenomenon in the cities in more than a decade.

1984 New Yorker 5 Mar. 43/2 The Bronx is very bebop—street music with a heavy, funky brass beat—which is good for electric boogie and break-dancing.

break-iron n.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkˌʌɪən/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌaɪ(ə)rn/

ΚΠ

1881 Mechanic §383. 166 The break-iron by which the shaving is turned in its upward course.

break-piece n.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkpiːs/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌpis/

= break n.¹ 17a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > operation of machinery > [noun] > regulation of current > device for

inversor1839

break-piece1842

rheotrope1843

break1852

commutator1874

1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts at Clarke's Magneto-Electric Machine The fore part of the spindle is terminated by a wire.., and a break piece at the end of it.

1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 253 An electromagnet with a self-interrupting breakpiece attached to its armature.

break-roll n.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkrəʊl/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌroʊl/

one of a pair of rollers between which wheat-grains are split.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > cracker or roller

barley-cracker1808

corn-cracker1844

break-roll1910

1910 Encycl. Brit. X. 551/2 The first pair of break-rolls used to be called the splitting rolls, because their function was supposed to be to split the [wheat] berry longitudinally down its crease.

break-signal n.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkˌsɪɡnl/

U.S.

/ˈbreɪkˌsɪɡn(ə)l/

a signal used to separate distinct parts of a telegraphic message.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > signal separating parts of message

break-signal1876

1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 287 These parts are separated from each other by a distinct signal, called the break signal.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	break-
释义	break-comb. form Stress is often attracted to this combining form. Etymology: < break v. 1. With verb + object. a. Forming nouns. (a) break-away n. Brit. /ˈbreɪkəweɪ/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkəˌweɪ/ ΚΠ 1881 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland II. xxix. 133 One of the men..has managed to stop the break-aways. (b) break-bones n. Brit. /ˈbreɪkbəʊnz/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌboʊnz/ the Ossifrage or Osprey. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Pandionidae (osprey) pygarga1398 ospreyc1450 ospring1530 water eagle1562 bone-breaker1598 ospringer?1611 ossifrage1658 fish-eagle1678 fishing hawk1694 fishing eaglea1792 eagle fisher1801 fish-hawk1808 break-bones1838 1838 E. A. Poe Narr. A. G. Pym in Wks. (1864) IV. 123 It is frequently called the break-bones, or osprey peterel. break-bulk n. Brit. /ˈbreɪkbʌlk/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌbəlk/ one who breaks bulk, a captain that abstracts part of his cargo. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > other types of defrauder or swindler leger1591 concealer1597 break-bulk1622 bug hunter1725 land-shark1769 Morocco man1796 land-cook1807 nob-pitcher1819 bubble-man1862 scuttler1869 lumberer1897 prop man1966 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xlv. 113 To smother their owne disloyalties, in suffering these breake-bulks to escape. break-circuit n. Brit. /ˈbreɪkˌsəːkɪt/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌsərkət/ a device for opening and closing an electric circuit. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > circuit-breaker > [noun] contact-breaker1838 cutout1874 safety fuse1882 break-circuita1884 fuse1884 contactor1910 oil circuit-breaker1916 tapping key1916 a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 130/2 Break-circuit, an arrangement on an electro-magnetic or magneto-electric instrument, by which an operator can open or close the circuit at pleasure. break-club n. Brit. /ˈbreɪkklʌb/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌkləb/ Golf any obstacle on which the player might break his club. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > hazards hazard1744 blind hazard1816 bunker1824 sand-bunker1824 sand1842 break-club1857 water hazard1889 trap1890 casual water1899 pot bunker1899 sand-trap1922 1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 67 Lifting ofBreak-clubs.—All loose impediments within twelve inches of the ball may be removed on or off the course when the ball lies on grass. † break-forward n. Obsolete an alleged old name of the hare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) harea700 wimountc1280 wood-catc1280 babbart?a1300 ballart?a1300 bigge?a1300 goibert?a1300 grasshopper?a1300 lightfoot?a1300 long-ear?a1300 make-fare?a1300 pintail?a1300 pollart?a1300 purblind?a1300 roulekere?a1300 scot?a1300 scotewine?a1300 side-looker?a1300 sitter?a1300 westlooker?a1300 wort-cropper?a1300 break-forwardc1300 broom-catc1300 swikebertc1300 cawel-herta1325 deuberta1325 deudinga1325 fern-sittera1325 fitelfoota1325 foldsittera1325 furze cata1325 scutardea1325 skikarta1325 stobherta1325 straw deera1325 turpina1325 skulker1387 chavarta1400 soillarta1400 waldeneiea1400 scutc1440 coward1486 wata1500 bawtiec1536 puss1575 watkin1585 malkin1706 pussy1715 bawd1785 lion1825 dew-hopper- c1300 Names of Hare in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 13 The make-fare, the breke-forwart. † break-gap n. Obsolete that which opens a passage. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > [noun] > action or process of opening > one who or that which opens > that which opens a gap break-gap1662 1662 J. Heath in Pagitt's Heresiogr. (new ed.) Ep. Ded. J. Frederick sig. π4 The break gap to all those mischiefs that flowed in upon the King. † break-hedge n. Obsolete a trespasser. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > trespass > one who trespasserc1455 break-hedge1573 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 13^v Keepe safely thy fence, skare breake hedge thence. † break-league n. Obsolete a breaker of a league or treaty. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > treaty > breaking a treaty > one who break-league1582 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 80 Al faythlesse break leages. † break-love n. Obsolete a disturber or destroyer of love. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > disturber or destroyer of love break-love1582 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. T. More in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 99 Lyke a breaklooue mak'bat adultrer. † break-net n. Obsolete the dogfish or thresher. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > family Scyliorhinidae > dogfish sea-houndc1330 houndfishc1386 hussc1440 dogfishc1450 break-net1585 sea-dog1601 rough hound1602 hound1603 mallet-fish1611 dogship1623 morgya1667 gobbag1716 bone dog1825 roussette1844 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator Breakenet, a sea~dog or dogfishe. 1623 J. Minsheu Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Lamia A certaine dog-fish called a Breaknet. † break-peace n. Obsolete a peace-breaker. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > one who creates a disturbance or rioter hurlerc1440 sturblerc1440 perturbera1450 riotora1450 frayera1513 peace-breaker?1533 perturbatora1538 interturber1538 rioter1543 router1584 break-peace1593 roarer1622 uproarer1629 mobber1744 riotist1831 1593 Passionate Morrice in Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 73 Our only breakepeace. † break-promise n. Obsolete a promise-breaker. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unfaithfulness > unfaithful person > [noun] > breaking promise break-vow1582 oath-breaker1601 break-promisea1616 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > [noun] > breach of pledge or agreement > one who warlockOE prevaricatora1500 league breaker1561 break-vow1582 oath-breaker1601 break-promisea1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 182 I will thinke you the most patheticall breake-promise . View more context for this quotation † break-pulpit n. Obsolete a boisterous preacher. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > boisterous, violent Boanergesc1384 break-pulpit1589 thump-cushion1827 dustman1877 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome F Som of our bishops are very great breakepulpits. † break-vow n. Obsolete a breaker of vows. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unfaithfulness > unfaithful person > [noun] > breaking promise break-vow1582 oath-breaker1601 break-promisea1616 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > [noun] > breach of pledge or agreement > one who warlockOE prevaricatora1500 league breaker1561 break-vow1582 oath-breaker1601 break-promisea1616 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 77 This breakuow naughtye. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. ii. 570 That Broker, that still breakes the pate of faith, That dayly breake-vow . View more context for this quotation breakwind n. Brit. /ˈbreɪkwɪnd/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌwɪnd/ (a) dialect a disease of sheep; (b) a screen or protection against the wind; cf. wind-break n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > against weather or storms screen1538 tent1572 shelter1585 sconce1591 shade1624 bothy1750 breakwind1823 watershed1831 1823 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. 110 It never saw either braxy or breakwind. 1833 in W. S. Ramson Austral. Eng. (1966) 95 Breakwind. 1862 J. S. Dobie Jrnl. 26 Sept. in S. Afr. Jrnl. (1945) 32 A tarpaulin hung on weather side for a breakwind. 1863 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 282/2 What the Australians call a ‘breakwind’, i.e., a pent roof, looking like the falling flap of a large bird-trap. 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 317/2 The Norway maple..is a hardy tree, used as a breakwind in exposed situations on the east coast. 1890 Athenæum 18 Oct. 516/1 [Tasmanians] were frequently content with a mere break-wind in lieu of any covered structure. 1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails 135 Two sheets of bark had been raised as a break-wind. 1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. vii. 54 The only form of shelter I needed was a small breakwind. b. Forming adjectives. See also break-back adj., breakneck adj. break-axe adj. Brit. /ˈbreɪkaks/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌæks/ that breaks axes, as in break-axe tree Sloanea Jamaicensis. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies sweetwood1607 mastic1657 acajou1666 bastard locust tree1670 bastard locust tree1670 alligator wood1696 muskwood1696 lancewood1697 rodwood1716 cog-wood1725 soapwood1733 down tree?1740 pigeon plum1743 break-axe tree1756 horse-wood1756 loblolly whitewood1756 Spanish elm1756 trumpet-tree1756 ahuehuete1778 ocote1787 locust tree1795 Madeira wood1796 peroba1813 roble1814 louro1816 cecropia1824 purple heart1825 wallaba1825 trumpet-wood1836 gumbo-limbo1837 poui1838 quebracho1839 snake-wood1843 yacca1843 horseflesh wood1851 necklace tree1858 Honduras rosewood1860 turanira1862 softwood1864 wattle-wood1864 balsa tree1866 primavera1871 rauli1874 lemon-wood1879 wheel-tree1882 Spanish stopper1883 gurgeon-stopper1884 pinkwood-tree1884 stopper1884 sloth-tree1885 imbaubaa1893 Spanish cedar1907 amarant1909 Parana pine1916 imbuya1919 mastic-bully1920 banak1921 timbo1924 becuiba1934 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 250 The Brake-axe Tree... It is..so very hard, that it is found a difficult matter even to cut it down. break-bone adj. Brit. /ˈbreɪkbəʊn/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌboʊn/ bone-breaking, as in break-bone fever, the dengue, an infectious eruptive fever of warm climates; also elliptical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > dengue dandy1828 dengue1828 break-bone fever1862 three-day fever1897 o'nyong-nyong1960 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > dengue dandy1828 dengue1828 break-bone fever1862 three-day fever1897 o'nyong-nyong1960 1862 N.Y. Tribune 16 May Another fever, to which the natives [of the south-western United States] give the name..of Breakbone. 1866 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. 809 Acute, often excruciating, pains in the head, eyes, muscles of the neck, loins, and extremities are prominent traits of the affection; hence the name breakbone fever. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 395 A ship with several cases of ‘Dengue’, or ‘Breakbone fever’ on board. break-covert adj. Brit. /ˈbreɪkˌkʌvət/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌkəvərt/ , /ˈbreɪkˌkoʊvərt/ that breaks covert. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > [adjective] restayeda1425 setting1551 retrieving1634 scenting1749 tying1781 break-covert1820 roadingc1880 1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 63 The break-covert blood-hounds. † break-dance adj. Obsolete disturbing, turbulent. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] wildc1000 unthewedc1175 wanton?a1300 rabbisha1387 irregular1395 inordinate1398 unruly1400 misgoverned?a1425 misruled?a1425 misruly?a1425 unruleful1439 seditious1447 rulelessc1460 turbulous1527 undaunted1533 turbulent1538 unordinate1561 rowsey1565 misorderlya1568 disruly1570 rabbling1575 disorderous1579 irregulate1579 disorderly1585 break-dance1587 willyart?1590 unguided1600 inorderly1606 anarchial1609 irregulousa1616 unmasterlya1623 uncomposed1631 obstreperous1641 disriegled1657 ranting1658 rantipole1660 reuling1691 shandy1691 rumblegarie1722 randy1723 obstropolous1727 wanruly1773 polrumptious1787 ree-raw1800 rambunctious1830 roid1874 unordered1929 rogue1948 1587 J. Hooker in tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland Ep. Ded. sig. Aij^v, in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II This brainesicke and breakedanse Girald of Desmond..did breake into treasons. break-teeth adj. Brit. /ˈbreɪktiːθ/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌtiθ/ (also break-tooth) difficult to pronounce. ΚΠ 1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Break-teeth Words, hard words, difficult to pronounce. 1825 H. Wilson Mem. I. 48 Not to put in any break-teeth long words. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 11 Feb. (1941) 21 The Admiral with the break-tooth name. 2. With the verb used attributively = breaking adj. break crop n. Brit. /ˈbreɪk krɒp/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪk ˌkrɑp/ in arable farming: a different kind of crop sown to break the continuity in repeated sowing of cereals. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > other crops fleece1513 white crop1743 green crop1744 root crop1772 row crop1776 robber1777 mix-grass1778 breaking-crop1808 industrial crop1818 foliage crop1831 kharifa1836 scourge-crop1842 overcrop1858 by-crop1880 coppice-with-standards1882 sewage grass1888 trap-crop1899 cleaning crop1900 nurse crop1907 cover crop1909 smother crop1920 stoop crop1928 snatch crop1937 break crop1967 wholecrop1968 1967 Punch 10 May 687/2 Other..break crops include roots, oats, and oil seed rape. 1971 Country Life 23 Sept. 771/1 The break crop was needed firstly to restore the drain on fertility as a result of successive cereal crops. 1984 ‘D. Archer’ Ambridge Years 114 Rape provides a very useful ‘break crop’ by preventing some of the diseases you can get if you plant corn over and over again on the same land. break-dancer n. Brit. /ˈbreɪkˌdɑːnsə/ , /ˈbreɪkˌdansə/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌdænsər/ ΚΠ 1982 Village Voice (N.Y.) 31 Aug. 55/2 Men in battery-powered visors lit up and dimmed,..break dancers broke. 1985 Sunday Tel. 3 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 32/4 The streets of New York and Los Angeles might twitch with coke-sniffers, break-dancers and the denizens of the eighties, but the old America was not dead yet. breakdancing n. Brit. /ˈbreɪkˌdɑːnsɪŋ/ , /ˈbreɪkˌdansɪŋ/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌdænsɪŋ/ originally U.S. a style of dancing popularized by African Americans, often individual or competitive, and characterized by a loud insistent beat to which dancers perform energetic and acrobatic movements, sometimes spinning around on their backs on the pavement or floor (pioneered during the late 1970s by teams of African-American teenaged dancers in the south Bronx, New York). ΚΠ 1982 Village Voice (N.Y.) 21 Sept. 61/1 The Smurf is a fusion dance..a dance incorporating smoothed out elements of break dancing. 1983 Daily News 23 Sept. 18 They are young street dudes, nearly all of them black, anywhere from 10 to 23 years old, and what they are doing is a new style of dancing known as ‘breaking’ or ‘break dancing’. It is the first new dance phenomenon in the cities in more than a decade. 1984 New Yorker 5 Mar. 43/2 The Bronx is very bebop—street music with a heavy, funky brass beat—which is good for electric boogie and break-dancing. break-iron n. Brit. /ˈbreɪkˌʌɪən/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌaɪ(ə)rn/ ΚΠ 1881 Mechanic §383. 166 The break-iron by which the shaving is turned in its upward course. break-piece n. Brit. /ˈbreɪkpiːs/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌpis/ = break n.¹ 17a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > operation of machinery > [noun] > regulation of current > device for inversor1839 break-piece1842 rheotrope1843 break1852 commutator1874 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts at Clarke's Magneto-Electric Machine The fore part of the spindle is terminated by a wire.., and a break piece at the end of it. 1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 253 An electromagnet with a self-interrupting breakpiece attached to its armature. break-roll n. Brit. /ˈbreɪkrəʊl/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌroʊl/ one of a pair of rollers between which wheat-grains are split. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > cracker or roller barley-cracker1808 corn-cracker1844 break-roll1910 1910 Encycl. Brit. X. 551/2 The first pair of break-rolls used to be called the splitting rolls, because their function was supposed to be to split the [wheat] berry longitudinally down its crease. break-signal n. Brit. /ˈbreɪkˌsɪɡnl/ , U.S. /ˈbreɪkˌsɪɡn(ə)l/ a signal used to separate distinct parts of a telegraphic message. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > signal separating parts of message break-signal1876 1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 287 These parts are separated from each other by a distinct signal, called the break signal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < comb. formc1300
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