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shipbreaker

shipbreaker noun: one who works in shipbreaking.

Noun

shipbreaker (plural shipbreakers)

  1. One who works in shipbreaking.
    • […] the L.M.S.R. has sold Queen Empress, Duchess of Rothesay, and Eagle III to a Dutch firm of shipbreakers.1947 January and February, “Notes and News: Steamer Services on the Clyde”, in Railway Magazine, page 50

shipbreaker meaning in Tamil

shipbreaker in Tamil

கப்பலுடைப்புக் குத்தகையர்

Forms of shipbreaker

pluralshipbreakers
alternative formship-breaker

Origin of shipbreaker

From ship + breaker.

Questions about shipbreaker

What does shipbreaker mean?
Shipbreaker means one who works in shipbreaking.
What is shipbreaker in Tamil?
Shipbreaker in Tamil is கப்பலுடைப்புக் குத்தகையர். See Shipbreaker meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shipbreaker?
Shipbreaker is a noun.
What is the plural of shipbreaker?
The plural of shipbreaker is shipbreakers.

Words near shipbreaker in the dictionary

  1. shipborne
  2. shipbound
  3. Shipbourne
  4. shipboy
  5. shipboys
  6. shipbreaker
  7. shipbreakers
  8. shipbreaking
  9. shipbroken
  10. shipbroker
  11. shipbrokers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shipbreaker (page history and authors); shipbreaker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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