borer
See also: Borer
English
Noun
borer (plural borers)
- A tedious person.
- A person who bores, who drills.
- A tool used for drilling.
- An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
- One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
- apple borer
- borer bomb
- cork-borer
- corn borer
- instep borer
- jig borer
- rock-borer
- moth-borer
- raise borer
- squash vine borer
- stone-borer
- sugar cane borer
- sugar-maple borer
- twig borer
- vine borer
- well-borer
- wood-borer, woodborer
Translations
person who bores/drills
tool
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a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle
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mollusc
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Norwegian Bokmål
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bǒːrer/
- Hyphenation: bo‧rer
Declension
Declension of borer
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| nominative | borer | boreri |
| genitive | borera | borera |
| dative | boreru | borerima |
| accusative | borer | borere |
| vocative | boreru | boreri |
| locative | boreru | borerima |
| instrumental | borerom | borerima |
Synonyms
- (drill bit): svrdlo
- (drill): bormašina
References
- “borer” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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