Borer is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BORER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one that bores
• a worm, mollusc, insect, or insect larva which bores into wood, other plant material, or rock.
• a tool for boring.
• machine or hand tool for boring holes
• One that bores; an instrument for boring.
• A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.
• Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.
• One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.
• The hagfish (Myxine).
• a drill for penetrating rock
• any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood

Words related to BORER

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Words that contain BORER

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How to use BORER in a sentence

• The soldiers below, like all soldiers, wished to have a drink from the great casks, and so one of them took a borer and bored into one of the casks.
• The principal members of this class are the leopard moth, the hickory-bark borer, the sugar-maple borer, the elm borer, and the bronze-birch borer.
• It is important to emphasize the advisability of detecting the fine sawdust because that is the best indication of the actual operations of the hickory bark borer.
• The sharp knife enlarges the hole, which is the trail of the serpent, and the sharp-pointed, flexible wire follows the route until it has reached and transfixed the borer.
• Attacks are made on the firing line trenches by blind saps, which are constructed by a special earth borer.
• Outbreaks of the hickory bark borer occur periodically throughout the northeastern United States, and during the past five years many hickory trees in this vicinity have died.
• There are several borers attacking the wood of the trunk of the hickory, but one of the commonest is the painted hickory borer.
• A more interesting feature of the Landing, however, was the well sunk by the Government borer, Mr.
• Here, too, is a well which was sunk for petroleum, but which struck gas instead, blowing up the borer.
• In each of these little pieces small cavities should be cut with the small end of the borer.

Similar words containing BOR without suffix er

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