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Definition of Break water
1. Verb. Show the fins above the water while swimming. "The sharks were finning near the surface"
Definition of Break water
1. Verb. To rise up partially out of the water when swimming underwater ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Break Water
Literary usage of Break water
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"... discovered by Mr. Whitby, in a Cavern inclosed in the Lime-stone Rock, from
which he is forming the Break-water at Plymouth. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. ..."
2. Sketches on a Tour Through the Northern and Eastern States, the Canadas by J. C. Myers (1849)
"... —Athenaeum—Harbor—Fortifications—break water— Light House—Observatory—Commerce—Turtle
Shell-Railroad Bridge-Hotel-Steam- IT General ..."
3. Voyages to the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-West by Edmund Fanning (1838)
"... the whale—The signal—Break- water roar of the monster—Terrific scene—Snowy
foam of the sea—Fatal stroke—Sea of blood—His dying flurry —Life extinct—Huge ..."
4. The Christian Spectator (1828)
"The object of the Break- Water is to make a sale harbor of Plymouth Sound for
... the quarries in vessels, which aru moored at the side of the break-water. ..."
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