borer

See also: Borer

English

Etymology

bore +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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

Noun

borer (plural borers)

1. A tedious person.
2. A person who bores, who drills.
3. A tool used for drilling.
4. An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
5. One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
6. 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “borer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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 m (sondjor)
• Finnish: kairaaja
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: tolladóir m
• Swedish: borrare c

tool

• Georgian: ბურღი (burɣi)
• German: Bohrmaschine (de)
• Ido: borilo (io)
• Irish: tollaire m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: alesatore m
• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latgalian: cyrms m
• Latvian: ķirmis m
• Maori: tākituri, iro poka

mollusc

• Maori: pātiotio
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

borer

1. (deprecated template usage) present of bore

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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