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What is a breakwater?

What is a breakwater? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside
  2. (nautical) a low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers
  3. On beaches: a wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.
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Realism is never popular in boating, but the vast majority of boats in marinas seldom venture outside the breakwater.
The same disease had eliminated the elkhorn coral which should form a natural breakwater for Caribbean shores.
Out on the breakwater, fishermen wave to us as we roll by, and I wave back.
Somewhere out of my sight in the darkness, waves crashed against the breakwater.
Most of ours live aboard vessels moored more or less permanently outside the marina breakwater, in a shallow bight known as Fools' Anchorage.
They had built a breakwater so ineffectual that any boat taking overnight shelter behind it was likely to be smashed to matchwood on the rocks.

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