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counterbore
counterbore is a 11-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 4 senses
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- 1noun
A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.
- 2noun
A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.
- 3transitive verb
To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.
- 4noun
a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole
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