bore

bore has 25 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• imp.. of Bear
• v. t.. To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
• v. t.. To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
• v. t.. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
• v. t.. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
• v. t.. To befool; to trick.
• v. i.. 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 bore into a tree (as insects).
• v. i.. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
• v. i.. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
• v. i.. To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
• n.. A hole made by boring; a perforation.
• n.. The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.