shipbreaker

English

Alternative forms

  • ship-breaker

Etymology

ship + breaker

Noun

shipbreaker (plural shipbreakers)

  1. One who works in shipbreaking.
    • 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: Steamer Services on the Clyde”, in Railway Magazine, page 50:
      [] the L.M.S.R. has sold Queen Empress, Duchess of Rothesay, and Eagle III to a Dutch firm of shipbreakers.

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