Breaker
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Breaker has the following meanings:
- An ice breaker is a ship that can navigate through ice.
- A circuit breaker protects equipment from an overload or short circuit.
- A coal breaker is a structure that processes coal.
- Breaker is a USDA carcass grade for slaughter cattle.
- A ship breaker is a business which demolishes vessels for scrap metal.
- A breaker wave is an overextended water wave that collapses as it approaches the shore.
- Breaker (band) is a heavy metal band.
- Breaker (album) is an album by Accept.
- Breaker Morant, an Anglo-Australian soldier named Harry Harbord Morant who was famously executed for war crimes during the Boer War and nicknamed "The Breaker"; the 1973 novel about him by Kit Denton; or the Australian film 'Breaker' Morant based on that novel.
- Humans with telepathic abilities in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. Over the course of the story, they are conscripted into using their powers to destroy the multiverse.
- The Breakers is a mansion in Newport, Rhode Island.
- A breaker is or was CB radio slang for a CB radio user.
- One involved in the act of breaking (martial arts). Usage: Would the next breaker please step forward for his/her attempt.
