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breakwater: tags: [architecture]

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structures constructed on coasts as part of coastal defense or to protect an anchorage from the effects of both weather and longshore drift.

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Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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It was an old pier, once part of a breakwater.

Stephen King. The Stand (1990)

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