0 a very large wall that is built from the coast out into the sea to protect a beach or harbour from big waves --
The breakwater would limit the effects of severe weather and allow trade all year round in the port.
The promoters say, as a kind of educated gamble, that building the breakwater is safe.
They could easily judge—they live there—whether the little picture on the front was a proper representation of the height of the breakwater.
We just ask for a mole or breakwater which will enable our boats to lie safely at anchor.
To assess the total cost since 1864, when the breakwater was completed, would involve disproportionate expense.
That is the extent of the convention's control, but we license deposits that are not made for disposal, such as piers or breakwaters.
Breakwaters have been washed away in the great storms of this winter.
The seas will be polluted by finely chopped sewage which will get into the crevices of the breakwater.
