Definition of bore

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Bore (v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore..

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Work :: Work (n.) To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.
Tabrere :: Tabrere (n.) A taborer.
Eger :: Eger (n.) An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.
Forbore :: Forbore () imp. of Forbear.
Eagre :: Eagre (n.) A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore..
Slug :: Slug (v. i.) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm..
Wimble :: Wimble (v. t.) To bore or pierce, as with a wimble..
Overlabored :: Overlabored (imp. & p. p.) of Overlabo.
Doughbird :: Doughbird (n.) The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.
Tree :: Tree (n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead..
Patch :: Patch (n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore..
Auger :: Auger (n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge..
Bore :: Bore (n.) Caliber; importance.
Harborer :: Harborer (n.) One who, or that which, harbors..
Sloth :: Sloth (n.) Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico..
Hard-fisted :: Hard-fisted (a.) Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer..
Terrier :: Terrier (n.) An auger or borer.
Rhinaster :: Rhinaster (n.) The borele.
Teredine :: Teredine (n.) A borer; the teredo.
Bore :: Bore (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China..
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