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borer|ˈbɔərə(r)|
Also (only in sense 2) 6 boryer, 7 borier, borrier.
[f. bore v.1 + -er1; the forms in -ier, -yer, may be influenced by Fr. words in -ière, as tarière borer.]
1. One who bores or pierces.
1483Cath. Angl. 37 A Borer; forator. 1839Carlyle Chartism iv. 138 The millions are, and must be skilless, ploughers, delvers, borers. 1879in Cassell's Techn. Educ. II. 10 To enable the borer to make a complete section of the strata.
b. A horse that ‘bores’.
1872Lever Ld. Kilgobbin vi. 41 The best bit for a ‘borer’.
c. A name given to the Myxine or Hag-fish; also to the Teredo or shipworm; and to various insects which bore through wood, etc.
1789Phil. Trans. LXXIX. 68, I should conceive it a preservative against the Borer, so destructive to ships in this part of the world. 1841J. W. Orderson Creol. ii. 9 The borer, a grub peculiar to the sugar cane, made such..ravage. 1879R. J. Atcherley Boërland 238 The depredations caused by an insect called the borer. 1884Longm. Mag. Mar. 525 The Hagfish or Borer..penetrating the captured cod or ling..devours the soft parts.
2. An instrument for boring:
a. the tool employed for boring through rocks;
b. the apparatus attached to the tail of boring-insects.
1572J. Jones Bathes Buckstone 2 a, Boryers, such as mynerall men use in searching ore. 1623Whitbourne Newfoundland 75 Taps, Boriers, and Funnels. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. vii. (1821) 556 With all the yron borriers, seven peeces in all. 1797Phil. Trans. LXXXVII. 326 At the time the borer burst through. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. (1817) 155 The awl or borer fixed at the tails of various species of flies. 1883Pall Mall G. 6 Sept. 8/2 The borer having come in contact with a dynamite cartridge previously unexploded. |
