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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Pant :: Pant (v. i.) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp..
Choke :: Choke (n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc..
Boomdas :: Boomdas (n.) A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.
Longshoreman :: Longshoreman (n.) One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels..
Horntail :: Horntail (n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females..
Unneighbored :: Unneighbored (a.) Being without neigbors.
Eger :: Eger (n.) An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.
Bore :: Bore (v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole..
Arbored :: Arbored (a.) Furnished with an arbor; lined with trees.
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..
Rhinaster :: Rhinaster (n.) The borele.
Sulphureity :: Sulphur-bottom (n.) A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale..
Humdrum :: Humdrum (n.) A dull fellow; a bore.
Clearwing :: Clearwing (n.) A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples..
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..
Bore :: Bore (imp.) of Bea.
Teredo :: Teredo (n.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App..
Conversion :: Conversion (n.) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles..
Arboreous :: Arboreous (a.) Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss..
Forswonk :: Forswonk (a.) Overlabored; exhausted; worn out.
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