Definition of bore

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Bore (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank..

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Unlabored :: Unlabored (a.) Not produced by labor or toil.
Workman :: Workman (n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer..
Imperforable :: Imperforable (a.) Incapable of being perforated, or bored through..
Roboreous :: Roboreous (a.) Made of oak.
Phalangist :: Phalangist (n.) Any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. The vulpine phalangist (P. vulpina) is the largest species, the full grown male being about two and a half feet long. It has a large bushy tail..
Yuen :: Yuen (n.) The crowned gibbon (Hylobates pileatus), native of Siam, Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely arboreal in its habits, and has very long arms. the males are dark brown or blackish, with a caplike mass of long dark hair, and usually with a white band around the face. The females are yellowish white, with a dark spot on the breast and another on the crown. Called also wooyen, and wooyen ape..
Pant :: Pant (v. t.) To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
Krupp Gun :: Krupp gun () A breech-loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. Guns of over eight-inch bore are made up of several concentric cylinders; those of a smaller size are forged solid..
Hyperborean :: Hyperborean (n.) An inhabitant of the most northern regions.
Xylophagan :: Xylophagan (n.) One of a tribe of beetles whose larvae bore or live in wood.
Chelura :: Chelura (n.) A genus of marine amphipod crustacea, which bore into and sometimes destroy timber..
Nicker :: Nicker (v. t.) The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
Lumper :: Lumper (n.) A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.
Teredine :: Teredine (n.) A borer; the teredo.
Labored :: Labored (imp. & p. p.) of Labo.
Sludger :: Sludger (n.) A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.
Calipers :: Calipers (n. pl.) An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses..
Dispart :: Dispart (n.) A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight..
Hyperborean :: Hyperborean (n.) One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine..
Eagre :: Eagre (n.) A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore..
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