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Aiguille
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
Asiphonida
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
Auger
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
Blenny
noun · 78% connection
small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
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: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
Borer
noun · 78% connection
Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
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: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
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: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
Bushing
noun · 78% connection
The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
Byssus
noun · 78% connection
A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusk…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
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: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
Creux
noun · 78% connection
Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
Deuterogenic
adjective · 78% connection
Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
Excavate
verb · 78% connection
To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
Gimlet
noun · 78% connection
A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
Glaucus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored wi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
Hippe
noun · 78% connection
A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See I…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: boring, hollowing, rocks, said, certain.
