A tool used for drilling. / A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes. / A tedious person; a person who bores others; a bore. / An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.

plural of borer

A surname.

plural of Borer

the roundheaded apple borer (Saperda candida, syn. Saperda bivittata) / the flatheaded appletree borer (Chrysobothris femorata) / Synanthedon myopaeformis

A type of machine tool invented during the World War I era to make possible the quick-yet-very-precise location of hole centers.

plural of jig borer

A kind of beetle, Megacyllene robiniae, that feeds as a larva on black locust trees in eastern North America.

A device used to eradicate pests, especially boring insects, by releasing toxic fumes.

A machine used to excavate a circular hole between two levels of an underground mine without the use of explosives.