Definition of borer

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Borer (n.) A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo..

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Hand :: Hand (n.) An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking..
Laborer :: Laborer (n.) One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan..
Hard-fisted :: Hard-fisted (a.) Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer..
Tabrere :: Tabrere (n.) A taborer.
Tasker :: Tasker (n.) One who performs a task, as a day-laborer..
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..
Plantation :: Plantation (n.) The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation..
Owe :: Owe (v.) To have an obligation to (some one) on account of something done or received; to be indebted to; as, to iwe the grocer for supplies, or a laborer for services..
Taborer :: Taborer (n.) One who plays on the tabor.
Nonagrian :: Nonagrian (n.) Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer..
Clearwing :: Clearwing (n.) A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples..
Deserve :: Deserve (v. t.) To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise..
Inclusa :: Inclusa (n. pl.) A tribe of bivalve mollusks, characterized by the closed state of the mantle which envelops the body. The ship borer (Teredo navalis) is an example..
Swinney :: Swinker (n.) A laborer.
Colaborer :: Colaborer (n.) One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
Gaffer :: Gaffer (n.) A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers.
Longicornia :: Longicornia (n. pl.) A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust..
Terrier :: Terrier (n.) An auger or borer.
Borer :: Borer (n.) One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple..
Overlook :: Overlook (v. t.) Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter..
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