borer

Significat (anglès)

1. A tool used for drilling.
2. (slang) A knife fit for a stabbing.
3. A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes.
4. A tedious person, who bores others; a bore.
5. An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
6. One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
7. A cyclostome, such as a hagfish, which bores into injured, dead, or decaying sea creatures to feed on their flesh.

Sinònims

awl

gimlet

drill

auger

termite

bore

death-watch beetle

driller

perforator

white ant

woodborer

bore bit

rock drill

stone drill

drill-operator

boring lathe

piercer

pricker

puncher

boring machine

tool

trepan

boring mill

wimble

slime eel

bitstock

small drill

hag-fish

pyralid larva

common hag

bur

burr

hole boring cutter

broacher

Atlantic hagfish

boring tool

grandmother

harpy

moth

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈbɔːɹə/

Etimologia (anglès)

From bore + -er.