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▪ I. boring, vbl. n.1|ˈbɔərɪŋ|
[f. bore v.1 +-ing1.]
1. The action of piercing, perforating, making a bore-hole, etc.; also concr. = bore-hole.
c1440Promp. Parv. 44 Borynge, or percynge, perforacio, cavatura. 1544MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Payd for boryng of a ladder ijd. 1626Bacon Sylva §352 The Boring of holes in that kinde of wood. 1708J. C. Compl. Collier (1845) 13 Do you not use Boreing sometimes in Sinking? 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. §19. 328 Count Rumford boiled water by the heat developed in the boring of a cannon. 1861W. Fairbairn Addr. Brit. Assoc., In various mines, borings, and Artesian wells.
2. attrib. and Comb., as boring-apparatus, boring-bench, boring-block, boring-machinery, boring-mill, boring-room, boring-tool; also boring-bar, the suspended bar which carries the bit for boring cannon; boring-bit = bore-bit (see bore n.1); boring-gauge, an appliance for limiting the action of the boring tool to the required depth; boring-rod = bore-rod (see bore n.1)
1667Primatt City & C. Build. 26 You find by your Boring-rods that you have a good seam of Coles. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metals II. 102 The boring-bench is composed of two stout beams of timber. Ibid. The [gun-] barrel is in the next place transferred to the boring-mill. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 174 The instrument-room, in which are arranged the various boring-bars, bits, and knives. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. §9. 271 M. Agassiz had iron boring-rods carried up the glacier, with which he pierced the ice. 1884C. Marvin Region Etern. Fire xii. 196 The pump draws the oil as freely..as when the basin was first tapped by the boring bit.
▪ II. boring, vbl. n.2|ˈbɔərɪŋ|
[f. bore v.2 +-ing1.]
The practice of annoying and wearying others; behaving as a bore.
1868Helps Realmah iii. (1876) 40 Boring has become a fine art. 1880Grant White Every-Day Eng. 304 It [interviewing]..makes boring a paid profession.
▪ III. † ˈboring, vbl. n.3 Obs. rare—1.
[f. boree1, F. bourrée, as ‘chasing’ from chassée.]
A certain step in dancing.
1775Sheridan Rivals iii. iv. (1883) 113, I must rub up my balancing, and chasing, and boring.
▪ IV. boring, ppl. a.1|ˈbɔərɪŋ|
[f. bore v.1 + -ing2.]
1. That bores or perforates; esp. applied to certain insects and molluscs. boring sponge, a saltwater sponge of the genus Cliona, which bores shells.
1853H. T. De la Beche Geol. Observ. xxvi. 485 There were bare patches of carboniferous limestone in the sea, and into these the boring animals of the time burrowed. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 208 The perforations in the column of the temple are the work of boring shell-fish. 1881R. Hunter et al. Encycl. Dict. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 107/2 Cliona, the boring sponge, destroys the shells and so injures the oyster.
2. Of a horse: That thrusts his head forward.
1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports ii. iii. i. §3. 523 In every way, therefore, it acts well with a boring horse.
▪ V. boring, ppl. a.2|ˈbɔərɪŋ|
[f. bore v.2 + -ing2.]
That annoys, wearies, or causes ennui. Hence ˈboringly adv.
1840T. Hook Fitzherbert III. iv. 66 Emily was patiently enduring..Miss Matthews's boring vanities. a1845Hood Incend. Song xiii, Burn all bores and boring topics. 1840T. Hook in New Month. Mag. LX. 429 Frank's attempts to moralize, not tediously, boringly or cantingly. |