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Bores

/bɔːz/

A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.

📖 Definitions of "Bores"

noun
  1. 1

    A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.

    "the bore of a cannon"

  2. 2

    The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.

  3. 3

    A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.

  4. 4

    A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.

verb
  1. 1

    To inspire boredom in somebody.

  2. 2

    To make a hole through something.

  3. 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. 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"

noun
  1. 1

    A sudden and rapid flow of tide occuring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.

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