borer

Meaning

1. A tool used for drilling.
2. (Multicultural-London-English, 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.
8. The penetrating root of a parasitic plant.

Synonyms

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

Translations

Bohrer

matkap

Bohrmaschine

taladro

delgi

τρυπάνι

behreme

vrille

barrena

burgu

ανιαρός

τρυπητής

Vettel

Ahle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɔːɹə/

Etymology

From bore + -er.