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Aiguille
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Axe
noun · 78% connection
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Bit
verb · 78% connection
A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Bore
verb · 78% connection
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Boring
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Broach
noun · 78% connection
A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Burin
noun · 78% connection
The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Centrebit
noun · 78% connection
An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Countersink
verb · 78% connection
To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Cross
noun · 78% connection
A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing C…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Die
noun · 78% connection
A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Doublethreaded
adjective · 78% connection
Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Drag
verb · 78% connection
The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Hindleys screw
unknown · 78% connection
A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is n…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Leading
adjective · 78% connection
Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Mallet
noun · 78% connection
A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Motive
noun · 78% connection
The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short fig…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
Nut
noun · 78% connection
A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, tool, boring, holes, leading.
