Definitions
A barrier built offshore or along a coast to reduce wave force.
Word origin
From break + water. Compare Dutch breekwater (“breakwater”). Compare firebreak.
Used in a sentence
“[…]there is a channel, some three miles wide between the city and the mainland, and some mile and a half wide between it and the sandy breakwater called the Lido, which divides the lagoon from the Adriatic,”
“But there's a pier or breakwater runs out into the sea just here, which we could defend longer than anything else, like Horatius and his bridge.”
“They sailed around a breakwater that hadn't existed on Peregrine's last trip and tied in at the moorage.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Harbor wave barrier”10 letters
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