borer

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈbɔːɹə/, X-SAMPA: /"bO:r\@/
• (US) enPR: bôrʹər, IPA: /ˈbɔːɹɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"bO:r\@`/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə(ɹ)

Noun

borer (plural borers)

1. A person who bores, who drills.
2. A tool used for drilling.
3. An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
4. One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
5. The hagfish (Myxine).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Derived terms

apple borer borer bomb cork-borer corn borer instep borer jig borer rock-borer moth-borer raise borer

squash vine borer stone-borer sugar cane borer sugar-maple borer twig borer vine borer well-borer wood-borer, woodborer

Translations

person who bores/drills

• Bulgarian: сондьор (bg) m (sondjor)

tool

• German: Bohrmaschine (de)
• Lithuanian: urbis (lt)

• Persian: مته (fa) (mateh)
• Swedish: borrmaskin (sv)

insect

• Bulgarian: дървесен червей (bg) (dǎrvesen červej)
• Japanese: 木食い虫 (ja) (きくいむし, kikuimushi)

• Latgalian: cyrms m
• Latvian: ķirmis (lv) m

mollusc

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Norwegian

Verb

borer

1. present tense of bore