breaker

virrankatkaisin

louhija

hyökyaalto Something that breaks.
A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines
The building in which such a machine is placed.
A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship's boat in case of shipwreck.
1898, (w), (w) Chapter 4

Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish .... And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef.

There came a cry: Oh, there be breakers dead ahead! / From the collier, Nightingale,