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breaker

noun C2
  1. A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.

Plural breakers

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“You are sure it was not a house-breaker’s jimmy?”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 89 · B2
In that case our friend the image-breaker has begun operations in another quarter of London.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 73 · C1

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