breakern.¹

Brit.

/ˈbreɪkə/, U.S.

/ˈbreɪkər/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s breker, (Middle English–1500s Scottish -ar).

Etymology: < break v. + -er suffix¹.

He who or that which breaks (in various senses of verb.).

a. One who breaks, crushes, or destroys; so breaker off, etc.; and with defining noun as housebreaker n., ship-breaker n., etc.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > one who breaks or cracks

breakerc1175

river?c1475

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > one who

breaker1597

upturner1870

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 83 Ne mihte nawiht brekere bon icloped.

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Aaii ^v The peas..is..breker of strife.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Fasting ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 288 A breaker of his fast.

1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 14 They become eyther breakers or banckerers.

1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 47 Death..is the reasonlesse breaker off of all Actions.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 198 A Breaker of Idols.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 31 Horn-handed breakers of the glebe.

b. spec. One who cards wool. (cf. break v. 2c.)

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > combing > one who

kember1511

breaker1514

picker1536

wool-picker1536

wool carder1580

comber1658

scribbler1682

wool-comber1702

1514 Act 6 Hen. VIII ix. §1 The Breaker or Kember to deliver again..the same Wooll so broken and kembed.

1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 156 Three weavers and spoolers, two breakers, etc.

c. One who makes known (tidings, etc.).

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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > bearer of news

news tellera1586

newsmonger1592

newsman1596

newsbearer1598

novelant1602

news-bringer1608

news-carrier1612

occurrencer1648

news-sender1696

novelist1706

news messenger1849

breaker1864

1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 81 A breaker of the bitter news from home.

a. One who transgresses or violates a law, oath, convention, etc.

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society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > insubordinate person > one who breaks rule or custom

transgressor1377

breakerc1384

infractor1524

violator?1535

infringer1541

contravener1567

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker

waryOE

wandelard1338

breakerc1384

malefactora1438

law-breakerc1440

misgovernora1449

malfetoura1450

wrongdoer1501

contravener1567

criminal1610

contravenary1614

mug1865

crook1879

outlaw1880

punter1891

kink1914

heavy man1926

crim1927

antisocial1945

villain1960

banduluc1977

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. xiii. 7 It bifelle the breker of lawe for to die.

1483 Cath. Angl. 42 A Breker or tryspaser; preuaricator, transgressor.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xvi. 38 A breaker of wedlocke and a murthurer.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 117 He was neuer yet a breaker of prouerbes: he will giue the diuell his due.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 350 Constables..may apprehend all breakers of the peace.

1864 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress 61 Some courageous breaker of conventions.

b. In combination with defining noun, as covenant-breaker n. at covenant n. Compounds 1b, law-breaker n., Sabbath-breaker n. at sabbath n. Compounds 1c, etc.

3. One who subdues, tames, or trains. Also breaker in, and in combinations, as horse-breaker n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > taming or training > tamer or trainer

dauntera1522

tamer1530

breaker1552

trainer1659

feeder1781

lion-tamer1798

domesticator1872

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Breaker of horse, or other beast brutysh.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 88 The breaker of mad horses—the tamer of wild Highlandmen.

1834 Fraser's Mag. 9 93 A breaker-in of dogs.

1860 Encycl. Brit. XX. 220 Whenever the dog in advance points, it is the breaker's duty to make all the rest that acknowledge the scent to point.

a. That which breaks; as a break-water (obsolete), a harrow (see quot. 1799). In many combinations, as coal breaker n. at coal n. Compounds 2, icebreaker n., rock-breaker n. at rock n.¹ Compounds 1b(c).

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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > structures protecting from water or flooding > [noun] > breakwater

countermure1610

breaker1661

water-breakera1689

breakwater1769

floating harbour1841

water break1875

crib-breakwater1879

wave screen1883

stockade1891

Stabit1962

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harrowing equipment > [noun] > harrow

eythea800

harrowa1350

herse1480

breaker1799

1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 47 There is no landing..by reason of the fury of the waves (not pacified by any Breakers).

1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 96 Some [harrows] are made large enough to be a draught for two horses, which are distinguished by the name of Breakers.

b. spec. The name of various machines for crushing the dried stems of flax or hemp, and for performing the first operation in carding cotton, etc.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > beating > machine for

breaker1817

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > machine

carding engine1776

carding machine1779

towing-mill1789

comber1831

breaker1875

breaking-enginea1877

1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 1059 The stems of flax and hemp..are passed through two machines, the first called a breaker, the second a rubber.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 972 After passing through the first or ‘breaker card’, the cotton is put through the ‘finisher’.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 274/2 The slivers produced by the breakers, as the first set of engines is called.

c. In paper-manufacture, a machine in which rags, etc., are washed and partly pulped. Also attributive, as breaker-plate.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > for pulping

beater1825

beating-engine1825

rag engine1825

stuff engine1839

poacher1866

poaching engine1870

breaking-enginea1877

Hollander1878

breaker1880

kollergang1890

pulp stone1892

1880 J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 71 It may be mentioned that the breaker-plate ought to be sharp when starting to blottings.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 456/1 The next step is that of washing and ‘breaking in’, which takes place in an engine called the ‘breaker’.

1963 R. R. A. Higham Handbk. Papermaking ii. 23 Different types of breakers are available for use with rag, wood pulp sheets, waste paper and broke.

d. In anthracite mining, an apparatus for breaking, sizing, and cleaning coal for the market.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > other mining equipment

dial1681

stick1708

motty1797

nail1839

spiking crib or curb1839

spile1841

bull1849

dag1863

ore bin1867

monitor1873

Billy Fairplay1876

snibble1883

brattice-cloth1885

breaker1885

steam point1895

picking belt1900

self-rescuer1924

rock duster1930

walking dragline1930

1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 501/2 The ‘breaker’, an anthracite invention and a monster of destruction, is an edifice of wood and iron 100 feet high,..with rollers set with teeth to crush the larger lumps, with bolting screens to separate the sizes.

1900 Coal & Metal Miners' Pocket-bk. (ed. 6) 574 Breaker Boy, a boy who works in a coal breaker.

e. In cheese-making, an implement for breaking the curd into small pieces.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > tool for breaking down curd

curd mill1378

cheese knife1579

breaker1844

1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 88 The first process of breaking down the curd in the cheese-tub is..performed by a breaker or curd-cutter.

5. A heavy ocean-wave which breaks violently into foam against a rocky coast or in passing over reefs or shallows. Breakers ahead! ‘the common pass-word to warn the officer of broken water in the direction of the course’.

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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > breaker

sea-breach1620

flash1627

breaker1684

whitecap1773

outbreaker1801

comber1840

pounder1927

shore break1962

1684 I. Mather Ess. Illustrious Provid. (1856) 43 If the Providence of God had not by the breakers given them timely warning they had been dashed to pieces.

1753 T. Woodroofe in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. lix. 397 When there is any sea, the breakers are visible.

1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xvi. 378 A wave produced by an earthquake..the water retiring first, and then returning in a mountainous breaker.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 4 Along that breaker-beaten coast.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 30 Till hard upon the cry of ‘breakers’ came The crash of ruin.

1879 J. Beerbohm Wanderings in Patagonia 3 Suddenly we heard a shout of ‘Breakers ahead!’ and every one turned pale.

†6. A kind of firework. Obsolete.

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the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > cracker or squib

squib1534

crackera1592

breaker1630

serpent1634

fizgig1647

firecracker1650

petard1668

reporter1688

riprap1709

swarmer1740

mine1769

India cracker1780

throwdown1877

whizz-bang1881

flip-flap1885

snake1891

thunderflash1943

banger1959

1630 J. Taylor Wks. iii. 118/1 Rackets, Crackers, Breakers and such like, giues blowes and reports without number.

1635 J. Babington Pyrotechnia xxxvi. 43 Your reports or breakers for this work shall be made as follows.

7. A horse that breaks (break v. 38c). Originally U.S.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > changing gait > horse that changes

breaker1868

1868 H. Woodruff & C. J. Foster Trotting Horse Amer. xxiii. 201 Although a trotter of remarkably fine speed and power, he was such a bad breaker.

1965 Weekly News (N.Z.) 8 Dec. 59/2 Breaking horses have always been a problem...There is an alarmingly high percentage of breakers.

Draft additions 1993

8. One who interrupts the conversation of others on a Citizens' Band radio channel, indicating that he or she wishes to transmit a message; hence, any CB radio user. Citizens' Band Radio slang (originally U.S.).

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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > radio operator > of Citizens' Band radio

CBer1959

breaker1963

1963 Time 11 Jan. 39/2 Sophie: 10-4, Marcie... Oh-oh, here's a breaker; come in, breaker, and identify yourself.

1975 Harper's Weekly 5 Oct. 6/4 Break one-oh, break one-oh! Go ahead, breaker. Smokey in the Eastbound at exit three-two.

1981 Times 2 Nov. 2/3 Citizen's band radio, the new personal radio communication service, becomes legal in Britain today... CB enthusiasts, known as breakers, held a rally in London yesterday.

1985 Truck & Driver June 29/3 Brian's currently searching for a CB buff to set up shop in the cafe to repair broken sets and sell replacement ones to passing breakers.

Draft additions June 2017

Tennis. A tiebreaker.

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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > game or definite spell of play > specific one of series

heata1663

rubber game1793

round1837

rubber match1843

tie-match1864

final1880

postseason1882

semi-final1884

preliminary1886

cup-tie1895

play-off1895

tie1895

leg1899

repechage1899

qualifier1908

quarter-final1916

playdown1918

rounder1918

go-around1933

quick death1938

semi1942

pretrial1946

quarter1950

barrage1955

tie-breaker1961

semi-main1968

tie-break1970

breaker1979

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > types of game

sudden death1834

matchplay1877

vantage-set1892

double1894

softball1914

breaker1979

challenger1990

1979 D. A. Benjamin Competitive Tennis vi. 147 At one all in the breaker, Cash hits a good serve and puts away the volley.

1996 E. Berry Topspin 10 Stark, up 8-7 in the breaker, hit a huge serve into Volkov's backhand corner.

2016 Bay Post (Batemans Bay, Austral.) (Nexis) 25 Nov. Wall raced away with the breaker and took the final in what was a very exciting and close match.

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

单词	breaker
释义	breakern.¹ Brit. /ˈbreɪkə/, U.S. /ˈbreɪkər/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s breker, (Middle English–1500s Scottish -ar). Etymology: < break v. + -er suffix¹. He who or that which breaks (in various senses of verb.). 1. a. One who breaks, crushes, or destroys; so breaker off, etc.; and with defining noun as housebreaker n., ship-breaker n., etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > one who breaks or cracks breakerc1175 river?c1475 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > one who breaker1597 upturner1870 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 83 Ne mihte nawiht brekere bon icloped. ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Aaii ^v The peas..is..breker of strife. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Fasting ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 288 A breaker of his fast. 1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 14 They become eyther breakers or banckerers. 1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 47 Death..is the reasonlesse breaker off of all Actions. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 198 A Breaker of Idols. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 31 Horn-handed breakers of the glebe. b. spec. One who cards wool. (cf. break v. 2c.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > combing > one who kember1511 breaker1514 picker1536 wool-picker1536 wool carder1580 comber1658 scribbler1682 wool-comber1702 1514 Act 6 Hen. VIII ix. §1 The Breaker or Kember to deliver again..the same Wooll so broken and kembed. 1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 156 Three weavers and spoolers, two breakers, etc. c. One who makes known (tidings, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > bearer of news news tellera1586 newsmonger1592 newsman1596 newsbearer1598 novelant1602 news-bringer1608 news-carrier1612 occurrencer1648 news-sender1696 novelist1706 news messenger1849 breaker1864 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 81 A breaker of the bitter news from home. 2. a. One who transgresses or violates a law, oath, convention, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > insubordinate person > one who breaks rule or custom transgressor1377 breakerc1384 infractor1524 violator?1535 infringer1541 contravener1567 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker waryOE wandelard1338 breakerc1384 malefactora1438 law-breakerc1440 misgovernora1449 malfetoura1450 wrongdoer1501 contravener1567 criminal1610 contravenary1614 mug1865 crook1879 outlaw1880 punter1891 kink1914 heavy man1926 crim1927 antisocial1945 villain1960 banduluc1977 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. xiii. 7 It bifelle the breker of lawe for to die. 1483 Cath. Angl. 42 A Breker or tryspaser; preuaricator, transgressor. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xvi. 38 A breaker of wedlocke and a murthurer. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 117 He was neuer yet a breaker of prouerbes: he will giue the diuell his due. View more context for this quotation 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 350 Constables..may apprehend all breakers of the peace. 1864 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress 61 Some courageous breaker of conventions. b. In combination with defining noun, as covenant-breaker n. at covenant n. Compounds 1b, law-breaker n., Sabbath-breaker n. at sabbath n. Compounds 1c, etc. 3. One who subdues, tames, or trains. Also breaker in, and in combinations, as horse-breaker n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > taming or training > tamer or trainer dauntera1522 tamer1530 breaker1552 trainer1659 feeder1781 lion-tamer1798 domesticator1872 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Breaker of horse, or other beast brutysh. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 88 The breaker of mad horses—the tamer of wild Highlandmen. 1834 Fraser's Mag. 9 93 A breaker-in of dogs. 1860 Encycl. Brit. XX. 220 Whenever the dog in advance points, it is the breaker's duty to make all the rest that acknowledge the scent to point. 4. a. That which breaks; as a break-water (obsolete), a harrow (see quot. 1799). In many combinations, as coal breaker n. at coal n. Compounds 2, icebreaker n., rock-breaker n. at rock n.¹ Compounds 1b(c). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > structures protecting from water or flooding > [noun] > breakwater countermure1610 breaker1661 water-breakera1689 breakwater1769 floating harbour1841 water break1875 crib-breakwater1879 wave screen1883 stockade1891 Stabit1962 the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harrowing equipment > [noun] > harrow eythea800 harrowa1350 herse1480 breaker1799 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 47 There is no landing..by reason of the fury of the waves (not pacified by any Breakers). 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 96 Some [harrows] are made large enough to be a draught for two horses, which are distinguished by the name of Breakers. b. spec. The name of various machines for crushing the dried stems of flax or hemp, and for performing the first operation in carding cotton, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > beating > machine for breaker1817 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > machine carding engine1776 carding machine1779 towing-mill1789 comber1831 breaker1875 breaking-enginea1877 1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 1059 The stems of flax and hemp..are passed through two machines, the first called a breaker, the second a rubber. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 972 After passing through the first or ‘breaker card’, the cotton is put through the ‘finisher’. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 274/2 The slivers produced by the breakers, as the first set of engines is called. c. In paper-manufacture, a machine in which rags, etc., are washed and partly pulped. Also attributive, as breaker-plate. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > for pulping beater1825 beating-engine1825 rag engine1825 stuff engine1839 poacher1866 poaching engine1870 breaking-enginea1877 Hollander1878 breaker1880 kollergang1890 pulp stone1892 1880 J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 71 It may be mentioned that the breaker-plate ought to be sharp when starting to blottings. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 456/1 The next step is that of washing and ‘breaking in’, which takes place in an engine called the ‘breaker’. 1963 R. R. A. Higham Handbk. Papermaking ii. 23 Different types of breakers are available for use with rag, wood pulp sheets, waste paper and broke. d. In anthracite mining, an apparatus for breaking, sizing, and cleaning coal for the market. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > other mining equipment dial1681 stick1708 motty1797 nail1839 spiking crib or curb1839 spile1841 bull1849 dag1863 ore bin1867 monitor1873 Billy Fairplay1876 snibble1883 brattice-cloth1885 breaker1885 steam point1895 picking belt1900 self-rescuer1924 rock duster1930 walking dragline1930 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 501/2 The ‘breaker’, an anthracite invention and a monster of destruction, is an edifice of wood and iron 100 feet high,..with rollers set with teeth to crush the larger lumps, with bolting screens to separate the sizes. 1900 Coal & Metal Miners' Pocket-bk. (ed. 6) 574 Breaker Boy, a boy who works in a coal breaker. e. In cheese-making, an implement for breaking the curd into small pieces. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > tool for breaking down curd curd mill1378 cheese knife1579 breaker1844 1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 88 The first process of breaking down the curd in the cheese-tub is..performed by a breaker or curd-cutter. 5. A heavy ocean-wave which breaks violently into foam against a rocky coast or in passing over reefs or shallows. Breakers ahead! ‘the common pass-word to warn the officer of broken water in the direction of the course’. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > breaker sea-breach1620 flash1627 breaker1684 whitecap1773 outbreaker1801 comber1840 pounder1927 shore break1962 1684 I. Mather Ess. Illustrious Provid. (1856) 43 If the Providence of God had not by the breakers given them timely warning they had been dashed to pieces. 1753 T. Woodroofe in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. lix. 397 When there is any sea, the breakers are visible. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xvi. 378 A wave produced by an earthquake..the water retiring first, and then returning in a mountainous breaker. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 4 Along that breaker-beaten coast. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 30 Till hard upon the cry of ‘breakers’ came The crash of ruin. 1879 J. Beerbohm Wanderings in Patagonia 3 Suddenly we heard a shout of ‘Breakers ahead!’ and every one turned pale. †6. A kind of firework. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > cracker or squib squib1534 crackera1592 breaker1630 serpent1634 fizgig1647 firecracker1650 petard1668 reporter1688 riprap1709 swarmer1740 mine1769 India cracker1780 throwdown1877 whizz-bang1881 flip-flap1885 snake1891 thunderflash1943 banger1959 1630 J. Taylor Wks. iii. 118/1 Rackets, Crackers, Breakers and such like, giues blowes and reports without number. 1635 J. Babington Pyrotechnia xxxvi. 43 Your reports or breakers for this work shall be made as follows. 7. A horse that breaks (break v. 38c). Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > changing gait > horse that changes breaker1868 1868 H. Woodruff & C. J. Foster Trotting Horse Amer. xxiii. 201 Although a trotter of remarkably fine speed and power, he was such a bad breaker. 1965 Weekly News (N.Z.) 8 Dec. 59/2 Breaking horses have always been a problem...There is an alarmingly high percentage of breakers. Draft additions 1993 8. One who interrupts the conversation of others on a Citizens' Band radio channel, indicating that he or she wishes to transmit a message; hence, any CB radio user. Citizens' Band Radio slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > radio operator > of Citizens' Band radio CBer1959 breaker1963 1963 Time 11 Jan. 39/2 Sophie: 10-4, Marcie... Oh-oh, here's a breaker; come in, breaker, and identify yourself. 1975 Harper's Weekly 5 Oct. 6/4 Break one-oh, break one-oh! Go ahead, breaker. Smokey in the Eastbound at exit three-two. 1981 Times 2 Nov. 2/3 Citizen's band radio, the new personal radio communication service, becomes legal in Britain today... CB enthusiasts, known as breakers, held a rally in London yesterday. 1985 Truck & Driver June 29/3 Brian's currently searching for a CB buff to set up shop in the cafe to repair broken sets and sell replacement ones to passing breakers. Draft additions June 2017 Tennis. A tiebreaker. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > game or definite spell of play > specific one of series heata1663 rubber game1793 round1837 rubber match1843 tie-match1864 final1880 postseason1882 semi-final1884 preliminary1886 cup-tie1895 play-off1895 tie1895 leg1899 repechage1899 qualifier1908 quarter-final1916 playdown1918 rounder1918 go-around1933 quick death1938 semi1942 pretrial1946 quarter1950 barrage1955 tie-breaker1961 semi-main1968 tie-break1970 breaker1979 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > types of game sudden death1834 matchplay1877 vantage-set1892 double1894 softball1914 breaker1979 challenger1990 1979 D. A. Benjamin Competitive Tennis vi. 147 At one all in the breaker, Cash hits a good serve and puts away the volley. 1996 E. Berry Topspin 10 Stark, up 8-7 in the breaker, hit a huge serve into Volkov's backhand corner. 2016 Bay Post (Batemans Bay, Austral.) (Nexis) 25 Nov. Wall raced away with the breaker and took the final in what was a very exciting and close match. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). breakern.² Brit. /ˈbreɪkə/, U.S. /ˈbreɪkər/ Etymology: Commonly believed to be a corruption of Spanish bareca or barrica; compare bareca n., barrico n. Nautical. A small keg or cask. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > small firkin1423 cag1452 kinkin1493 tonekin1546 bottle1578 kempkin1580 knaga1585 barrico1607 barrelet1611 barriket1611 keg1632 costrel1709 bareca1773 breaker1834 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xiv. 238 A breaker or two, (that is, small casks holding about seven gallons each,) of water was put into each boat. 1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful II. iii. 58 The purser sent a breaker of spirits on shore. 1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vi. 184 They will be found very useful for carrying both provisions and water and stow better than breakers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.¹c1175n.²1834
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