Bored: alternatives and connections

Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degre…

Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.

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 bor…

of Bore

A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.

To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.

The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will c…

An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies,…

An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore.

Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels o…

That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- for…

A genus of marine amphipod crustacea, which bore into and sometimes destroy timber.

To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.

The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.

A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to…

To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.