- bore-hole
- bore-hole ore-hole n. (mining)
a hole or passage made by a drill, especially one made for
exploratory purposes.
Syn: bore, drill hole. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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bore|hole — «BR HOHL, BOHR », noun. a hole drilled into the surface of the earth to provide samples, as of minerals or water, available at specified depths … Useful english dictionary
bore-hole — noun a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes • Syn: ↑bore, ↑drill hole • Derivationally related forms: ↑bore (for: ↑bore) • Topics: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
bore·hole — /ˈboɚˌhoʊl/ noun, pl holes [count] : ↑bore 1, 4; especially : a hole dug into the earth in order to find water or oil … Useful english dictionary
Hughes bore hole — The Hughes borehole is an acid mine drainage site located near the southwest central borough of Portage, Pennsylvania in Cambria County. In the 1920s, a hole was drilled in order to remove water from the myriad coal mines in the area. In the… … Wikipedia
bore — bore1 [bôr] vt. bored, boring [ME boren < OE borian, to bore < bor, auger < IE base * bher , to cut with a sharp point > Gr * pharein, to split, L forare, to bore, ferire, to cut, kill] 1. to make a hole in or through with a drill or… … English World dictionary
Bore — Bore, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Boring}.] [OE. borien, AS. borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan. bore, D. boren, OHG. por?n, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. ? to plow, Zend bar. [root]91.] 1. To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Bore — (b[=o]r), n. 1. A hole made by boring; a perforation. [1913 Webster] 2. The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. [1913 Webster] The bores of wind instruments. Bacon. [1913 Webster] Love s… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Bore — Bore, v. i. 1. To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Bore — may refer to:* Bore (engine), the diameter of a cylinder in a piston engine * Bore (wind instruments), the interior chamber of a wind instrument * Bore (woreda), a district of Ethiopia that includes the town of Bore * Bore, Italy * Gauge (bore… … Wikipedia
bore — ‘make a hole’ [OE] and bore ‘be tiresome’ [18] are almost certainly two distinct words. The former comes ultimately from an Indo European base *bhor , *bhr , which produced Latin forāre ‘bore’ (whence English foramen ‘small anatomical opening’),… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
