Index of English words, starting with "br"

(1) - Breakdown (n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
(2) - Breakdown (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
(3) - Breakdown (n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.

(1) - Breaker (n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
(2) - Breaker (n.) A small water cask.
(3) - Breaker (n.) Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
(4) - Breaker (n.) One who, or that which, breaks.

(1) - Breakfast (v. t.) To furnish with breakfast.
(2) - Breakfast (v. i.) To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
(3) - Breakfast (n.) A meal after fasting, or food in general.
(4) - Breakfast (n.) The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.

(1) - Breakneck (a.) Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed.
(2) - Breakneck (n.) A steep place endangering the neck.
(3) - Breakneck (n.) A fall that breaks the neck.