Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BREAK'ER, n.

1. The person who breaks any thing; a violator or transgressor; as, a breaker of the law. – South.
2. A rock which breaks the waves; or the wave itself which breaks against a rock, a sand bank, or the shore, exhibiting a white foam. – Mar. Dict. Johnson.
3. A pier, mound, or other solid matter, placed in a river, to break the floating ice, and prevent it from injuring a bridge below; called also ice-breaker.
4. One that breaks up ground.
5. A destroyer. – Micah ii.