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water-breaker

water-breaker is the alternative form of water breaker.

Meaning of water breaker

Noun

water breaker (plural water breakers)

  1. A container for storing water on a ship or other watercraft.
    • […] I came on deck, put down my own stock behind the rudder head and well out of the coxswain’s reach, went forward to the water-breaker, and had a good deep drink of water, and then, and not till then, gave Hands the brandy.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Chapter 25”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
  2. An attachment fitted to a hose to produce a spray.

Forms of water-breaker

pluralwater-breakers

Questions about water-breaker

What is water-breaker the alternative form of?
Water-breaker is the alternative form of water breaker.

Words near water-breaker in the dictionary

  1. water-bombers
  2. water-borne
  3. water-bouget
  4. water-bougets
  5. water-bound
  6. water-breaker
  7. water-breakers
  8. water-butt
  9. water-butts
  10. water-carrier
  11. water-carriers

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