borern.
/ˈbɔːrə/, U.S. /ˈbɔrər/ 1.
a. One who bores or pierces.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who bores or perforates
borer1483
puncher1681
piercer1736
driller1835
broacher1927
1483 Cath. Angl. 37 A Borer; forator.
1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 32 The millions are and must be skilless..; ploughers, delvers, borers.
1879 in Cassell's Techn. Educator II. 10 To enable the borer to make a complete section of the strata.
b. A horse that ‘bores’.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > movement of head > that tosses its head
stargazer1785
borer1872
1872 C. J. Lever Ld. Kilgobbin vi. 41 The best bit for a ‘borer’.
c. A name given to the Myxine or Hag-fish; also to the Teredo or shipworm; and to various insects which bore through wood, etc.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by feeding or parasitism > parasite(s) > that eats or bores through wood
wood-piercer1713
wood-digger1756
borer1789
xylophagan1842
xylophage1877
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Pholadidae > member of
Teredo1398
tree-worm1398
broma1555
worm1621
pholas1661
pirot1686
piddock1696
file1705
pholad1708
pileworm1733
file-shell1752
file-fish1774
ship-worm1778
rock-piercer1783
borer1789
pholadean1842
the world > animals > fish > superclass Agnatha > [noun] > suborder Myxinoidei or genus Myxine > member of (hagfish)
hag1777
hagfish1799
myxinoid1846
slime-eel1860
sea-hag1881
borer1884
1789 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 79 68 I should conceive it a preservative against the Borer, so destructive to ships in this part of the world.
1841 J. W. Orderson Creoleana ii. 9 The borer, a grub peculiar to the sugar cane, made such..ravage.
1879 R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 238 The depredations caused by an insect called the borer.
1884 Longman's Mag. Mar. 525 The Hagfish or Borer..penetrating the captured cod or ling..devours the soft parts.
d. A bagman, drummer. U.S.
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1836 Philad. Public Ledger 23 Aug. [Drummers in Philadelphia] are called borers, probably from some resemblance in qualities to a worm that infests fruit trees.
1856 Knickerbocker Oct. 407 Felicien B. blessed the drummers and borers of New York.
2. An instrument for boring:
a. The tool employed for boring through rocks.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > boring tool > for boring in the ground
auger1532
borer1572
boring-rod?1677
wimble1693
well borer1780
rock drill1836
miser1842
bore-rod1849
header1863
well drill1866
rig1875
well rig1875
trepan1877
broaching-bit1881
heading machine1897
1572 J. Jones Benefit Bathes of Buckstones f. 2 Boryers, such as mynerall men use in searching ore.
1623 R. Whitbourne Disc. New-found-land 75 Taps, Boriers, and Funnels.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia iii. vii. 309 Send mee..the yron borriers, seven peeces in all.
1797 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 87 326 At the time the borer burst through.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Sept. 8/2 The borer having come in contact with a dynamite cartridge previously unexploded.
b. The apparatus attached to the tail of boring-insects.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > abdomen > apparatus on tail of borers
borer1802
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xix. 349 The awl or borer fixed at the tails of various species of flies.
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