A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
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.
Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.
breaker one nine
From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.
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