Definition of bore

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Bore (n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger..

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Hyperborean :: Hyperborean (a.) Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind, or to its inhabitants..
Streamer :: Streamer (n.) A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis..
Periergy :: Periergy (n.) A bombastic or labored style.
Wiper :: Wiper (n.) A rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with which to wipe out the bore of the barrel..
Lictor :: Lictor (n.) An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid to them, also to apprehend and punish criminals..
Sponge :: Sponge (n.) A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff..
Tabrere :: Tabrere (n.) A taborer.
Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil..
Eger :: Eger (n.) An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.
Orang-outang :: Orang-outang (n.) An arboreal anthropoid ape (Simia satyrus), which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. Often called simply orang..
Gang :: Gang (v. i.) A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves..
Pholas :: Pholas (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadidae. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks..
Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..
Gibbon :: Gibbon (n.) Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing..
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..
Armiger :: Armiger (n.) Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire..
Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun..
Boredom :: Boredom (n.) The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui..
Hard-labored :: Hard-labored (a.) Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied.
Lumper :: Lumper (n.) A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.
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