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water breakers

water breakers is the plural 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.

Questions about water breakers

What is water breakers the plural of?
Water breakers is the plural of water breaker.

Words near water breakers in the dictionary

  1. water boy
  2. water boys
  3. water brash
  4. water break
  5. water breaker
  6. water breakers
  7. water breaks
  8. water bridge
  9. water bridges
  10. water buffalo
  11. water buffaloes

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