borer

See also: Borer

English

Etymology

bore + -er

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɔːɹə/
  • (US) enPR: bôrʹər, IPA(key): /ˈbɔːɹɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹə(ɹ)

Noun

borer (plural borers)

  1. A tedious person.
  2. A person who bores, who drills.
  3. A tool used for drilling.
  4. An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
  5. One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
  6. The hagfish (Myxine).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for borer in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Derived terms

  • squash vine borer
  • stone-borer
  • sugar cane borer
  • sugar-maple borer
  • twig borer
  • vine borer
  • well-borer
  • wood-borer, woodborer

Translations


Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

borer

  1. present of bore

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Bohrer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bǒːrer/
  • Hyphenation: bo‧rer

Noun

bórer m (Cyrillic spelling бо́рер)

  1. drill bit
  2. drill

Declension

Synonyms

  • (drill bit): svrdlo
  • (drill): bormašina

References

  • borer” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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