Breaker Point

Proper noun

Breaker Point

1. (obsolete) A point in Shantou, Guangdong, China.
   • SWATOW.
     About the 1st of this month, the British barque Sally, Captain Tait, on her voyage from Newchang to, this port, became a total wreck, eight miles N.E. from Cupchi Point. On the 4th, the second mate of the vessel arrived here overland and reported the ship ashore at Breaker Point; in...1875 November 25, “Outports.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XV, number 446, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 520, column 2
   • We had been dashing along before the gale at fully eleven knots an hour, when we went upon some unknown rock off Breaker Point—a projecting headland some sixty miles south of Swatow—so the terrible force with which we struck may easily be imagined.1882, Augustus F. Lindley, “Caught by Chinese Rebels”, in A Cruise in Chinese Waters. Being the Log of "The Fortuna.", 4th edition, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, →OCLC, pages 144–145