breaker

Something that breaks (something else).

a breaker of men's souls

A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.

The building in which such a machine is placed.

at the coal breaker

A: Is John at the tipple? B: No, he's at the breaker today.

A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard

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.

And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea

A breakdancer.

Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.

breaker one nine

Breaker to the Bandit

A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.

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.