breakwater means A suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 72 out of 100.
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- A suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.“[…]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,”
- A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers.
- A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.