Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun breaker

3 senses of breaker

Sense 1
breaker, ledgeman -- (a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone)
       => quarryman, quarrier -- (a man who works in a quarry)

Sense 2
surf, breaker, breakers -- (waves breaking on the shore)
       => wave, moving ridge -- (one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water))

Sense 3
circuit breaker, breaker -- (a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded)
       => fuse, electrical fuse, safety fuse -- (an electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded)