OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13940

breaker

/ˈbɹeɪkə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cachón
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
And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea
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.
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