breakwater

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breakwater englannista suomeksi

  1. aallonmurtaja

  1. Substantiivi

  2. aallonmurtaja

breakwater englanniksi

  1. A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.

  2. (RQ:Ruskin Stones of Venice)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 di Venezia|Lido, which divides the lagoon from the Adriatic,

  3. (RQ:Chesterton Thursday)

  4. (quote-book)| title=(w)|location=New York|publisher=Tor Books|isbn=0312851820|lccn=91039020|oclc=27351943|page=70|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/fireupondeep00ving_0/page/70/|passage=They sailed around a breakwater that hadn't existed on Peregrine's last trip and tied in at the moorage.

  5. A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers.

  6. A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.