borer
See also: Borer
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɔːɹə/
Noun
borer (plural borers)
- A tool used for drilling.
- (MLE, slang) A knife fit for a stabbing.
- A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes.
- A tedious person; a person who bores others; a bore.
- An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
- One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
- 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
tool
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a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle
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mollusc
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Norwegian Bokmål
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bǒːrer/
- Hyphenation: bo‧rer
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
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