borer

See also: Borer

English

Etymology

bore +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːɹə/

• (MLE) IPA^(key): /ˈboːɹɐ/
• (US) enPR: bôrʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːɹɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə(ɹ)

Noun

borer (plural borers)

1. A tool used for drilling.
2. (MLE, slang) A knife fit for a stabbing.

   Synonyms: wetter, jook, jooker, chete, ching, ying, rambo, poker, pokey, bassy, shank, nank, splash, splasher, cheffer, cutter

3. A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes.
4. A tedious person; a 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.

Derived terms

• apple borer
• ash borer
• Asian corn borer
• borer bomb
• cork borer
• cork-borer
• corn borer
• crotalaria pod borer
• emerald ash borer
• European corn borer
• fruit borer
• increment borer
• instep borer
• jig borer
• locust borer
• loosestrife borer
• moth-borer
• raise borer
• raspberry crown borer
• rock-borer
• squash vine borer
• stone-borer
• sugar cane borer
• sugar-maple borer
• twig borer
• vine borer
• wax-borer
• well-borer
• wharf borer
• wood-borer, woodborer
• yucca borer

 

Translations

person who bores/drills

• Bulgarian: сондьор m (sondjor)
• Finnish: kairaaja
• Irish: tolladóir m
• Swedish: borrare c

tool

• Bulgarian: бормашина (bg) f (bormašina)
• Georgian: ბურღი (burɣi)
• German: Bohrmaschine (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρύπανον n (trúpanon)

• Ido: borilo (io)
• Irish: tollaire m
• Italian: alesatore m
• Latin: terebra f
• Lithuanian: urbis
• Persian: مته‎ (fa) (matte)
• Romanian: mașină de găurit, bormașină (ro) f
• Swedish: borrmaskin (sv)

a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle

• Bulgarian: дървесен червей (dǎrvesen červej)
• Irish: tolladóir m
• Japanese: 木食い虫 (きくいむし, kikuimushi)
• Latgalian: cyrms m
• Latvian: ķirmis m
• Maori: tākituri, iro poka
• Russian: древоточец (ru) m (drevotočec)
• Ukrainian: деревоточець m (derevotočecʹ)

mollusc

• Maori: pātiotio

References

• borer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

borer

1. present of bore

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Bohrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǒːrer/
• Hyphenation: bo‧rer

Noun

bórer m (Cyrillic spelling бо́рер)

1. drill bit
2. drill

Declension

Declension of borer

	singular	plural
nominative	borer	boreri
genitive	borera	borera
dative	boreru	borerima
accusative	borer	borere
vocative	boreru	boreri
locative	boreru	borerima
instrumental	borerom	borerima

Synonyms

• (drill bit): svrdlo
• (drill): bormašina

References

• “borer” in Hrvatski jezični portal