BREAKERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breakers mean? 

• BREAKERS (noun)
  The noun BREAKERS has 1 sense:

1. waves breaking on the shore

  Familiarity information: BREAKERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREAKERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Waves breaking on the shore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

breaker; breakers; surf

Hypernyms ("breakers" is a kind of...):

moving ridge; wave (one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water))

 Context examples 

There was no sound but that of the distant breakers, mounting from all round, and the chirp of countless insects in the brush.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But the supply of food and the nine breakers of water enabled the boat to stand up to the sea and wind, and I held on as long as I dared.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Floating on with closed eyes and muffled ears, you neither see the rocks bristling not far off in the bed of the flood, nor hear the breakers boil at their base.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Next, in the line of breakers he made out a small canoe, an outrigger canoe.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Some hours passed thus; but by degrees, as the sun declined towards the horizon, the wind died away into a gentle breeze and the sea became free from breakers.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Over swung the great boom, and the cog trembled and quivered within five spear-lengths of the breakers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then come the sudden swirl round of the wind, the blistering gale from the south-west, the dragging anchor, the lee shore, and the last battle in the creaming breakers.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The water was out, over miles and miles of the flat country adjacent to Yarmouth; and every sheet and puddle lashed its banks, and had its stress of little breakers setting heavily towards us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The water-breakers and grub-boxes from all the other boats were likewise missing, as were the beds and sea bags of the two men.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A bluff cape to the north and a long spit to the south marked the mouth of the noble river, with a low-lying island of silted sand in the centre, all shrouded and curtained by the spume of the breakers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)