Definition of bore

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Bore (n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.

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Feather :: Feather (n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone..
Helleborism :: Helleborism (n.) The practice or theory of using hellebore as a medicine.
Nonagrian :: Nonagrian (n.) Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer..
Loris :: Loris (n.) Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (S. gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species..
Weevil :: Weevil (n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as th
Hag :: Hag (n.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken..
Slug :: Slug (v. i.) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm..
Patch :: Patch (n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore..
Yucca :: Yucca (n.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms..
Arboreta :: Arboreta (pl. ) of Arboretu.
Boredom :: Boredom (n.) The realm of bores; bores, collectively..
Ellebore :: Ellebore (n.) Hellebore.
Unlabored :: Unlabored (a.) Not cultivated; untitled; as, an unlabored field..
Arboreal :: Arboreal (a.) Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees..
Taborer :: Taborer (n.) One who plays on the tabor.
Boring :: Boring (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks..
Teredine :: Teredine (n.) A borer; the teredo.
Auger :: Auger (n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge..
Bore :: Bore (n.) Caliber; importance.
Bush :: Bush (n.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored..
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