Break Ground Meaning

(nautical, of an anchor) To lift off the sea bottom when being weighed.

Example:   They broke ground on the new library last month.
1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, chapter 2
  Try to break a little more land every year; sod corn is good for fodder. Keep turning the land, and always put up more hay than you need.
  The invention breaks ground in its programming and its structure.