What is a breakwater?

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Noun a construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside (nautical) a low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers On beaches: a wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast. Find more words! 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Somewhere out of my sight in the darkness, waves crashed against the breakwater. On Sunday August 3rd a memorial to those victims was unveiled and blessed on the western breakwater in Dingle harbour. Out on the breakwater, fishermen wave to us as we roll by, and I wave back. We just put the nose down and went weaving and skidding in a dive, passing over the breakwater of Cherbourg at about 400 feet. The same disease had eliminated the elkhorn coral which should form a natural breakwater for Caribbean shores. See Also What is another word for breakwater? Sentences with the word breakwater Words that rhyme with breakwater What is the plural of breakwater? Translations for breakwater Nearby Definitions break-ups breakups break-up break up breakup breaktimes break water breakwaters break with breaky bream breamed 10-letter Words Starting With b br bre brea break breakw breakwa breakwat breakwate