borer
- A tool used for drilling.
- (Multicultural-London-English, slang) A knife fit for a stabbing.
- A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes.
- A tedious person, who bores others; a bore.
- An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
- One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
- A cyclostome, such as a hagfish, which bores into injured, dead, or decaying sea creatures to feed on their flesh.
- The penetrating root of a parasitic plant.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbɔːɹə/
Etymology
From bore + -er.
bore bit
stone drill
drill-operator
boring lathe
boring machine
boring mill
small drill
hag-fish
pyralid larva
common hag
hole boring cutter
Atlantic hagfish
boring tool
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