water breaker
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A container for storing water on a ship or other watercraft.
noun
An attachment fitted to a hose to produce a spray.
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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."
- "I had only one canvas water-breaker; that was a big one, too big for me to carry single-handed from the spring to the dinghy. I should only be able to fill it half full—say seven or eight gallons on each journey."
- "[…] under Hornblower’s eye the French captain and mate served out a biscuit of hard bread to each person in the boat, and filled the pannikin for each man in turn from the water breakers under the thwarts."