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breakwaters

breakwaters is the plural of breakwater.

Meaning of breakwater

Noun

breakwater (plural breakwaters)

  1. A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.
    • […]there is a channel, some three miles wide between the city and the mainland, and some mile and a half wide between it and the sandy breakwater called the Lido, which divides the lagoon from the Adriatic,1853, John Ruskin, “The Throne”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § VI, page 8
  2. A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers.
  3. (on beaches) A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.

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Questions about breakwaters

What is breakwaters the plural of?
Breakwaters is the plural of breakwater.

Words near breakwaters in the dictionary

  1. breakup
  2. breakups
  3. breakwall
  4. breakwalls
  5. breakwater
  6. breakwaters
  7. Breakwell
  8. breakwind
  9. breakwinds
  10. breaky
  11. bream

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