shipbreaker

English

Alternative forms

• ship-breaker

Etymology

From ship +‎ breaker.

Noun

shipbreaker (plural shipbreakers)

1. One who works in shipbreaking.

   Hypernyms: breaker, salvager, salvor, scrapper, scrap dealer

   Coordinate terms: car breaker, junkman

   • 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.

Coordinate terms

• the breakers