0 a very large wall that is built from the coast out into the sea to protect a beach or harbour from big waves
Beyond the breakwater little tufts of silvery foam flashed on the rollers, and a solitary steamer steered steadily for the horizon.
I have landed twice at the Cape in a small boat, and I think a breakwater can be built, at small cost, so as to make a safe harbour at all seasons.
Master Hardy had also seen the ship out, and, perched on the extreme end of the breakwater, he remained watching until she was hull down on the horizon.
On the shore below the farm lay the little boat harbour, sheltered by a breakwater of heavy stone.
Passers-by saw only an old sailboat anchored at the deserted and rotting wharf up nearest the breakwater.
This undigested food on the breakwater makes it easy to identify what they feed on.
To minimize such events is the goal of harbour and breakwater design, and for that purpose one must be able to determine harbour response characteristics.
Aquatic birds spit out their undigested food on the breakwater.
