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Bores
/bɔːz/
A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
📖 Definitions of "Bores"
- 1
A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
"the bore of a cannon"
- 2
The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- 3
A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
- 4
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
- 1
To inspire boredom in somebody.
- 2
To make a hole through something.
- 3
To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
"An insect bores into a tree."
- 4
To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
"to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole"
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A sudden and rapid flow of tide occuring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
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