Crossword clues for borer
borer
- Drill for penetrating rock
- Auger, e.g
- Auger or destructive bug
- Wood-damaging insect
- Tree-harming beetle
- Many a worm
- Invasive bug
- Hole-making pest
- Hole-making insect
- Hole driller
- Damaging bug
- Auger, for one
- Auger or destructive beetle
- Tree-damaging insect
- Tree enemy
- Tool used for making holes
- Tool such as a drill
- Termite, for one
- Termite, for example
- Ruiner of ears?
- Rock-penetrating drill
- Longhorn beetle, for one
- Leaf-attacking insect
- Gimlet, for example
- Fruit-tree foe
- Drilling bug
- Bug found in trunks
- Boll weevil, e.g
- Awl, for example
- Auger, in use
- Auger or drill
- Hole-making bug or tool
- Drilling tool
- Orchardist's woe
- Termite, e.g.
- Hole-making tool
- Uninvited cornfield guest
- Burrowing insect
- A drill for penetrating rock
- Hole maker
- Invasive insect
- Mole, for one
- Shipworm, e.g
- Bark beetle
- Destructive insect
- Corn pest
- Teredo
- Beetle, at work
- Destructive beetle
- Shipworm or boll weevil
- Boll weevil, e.g.
- Burrowing insect duke removed from flower-bed
- Had right tool
- Termite maybe carried by rook
- Plant pest
- Cornfield pest
- Agricultural pest
- Crop pest
- Termite, e.g
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hag \Hag\ (h[a^]g), n. [OE. hagge, hegge, witch, hag, AS. h[ae]gtesse; akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan. hex, Sw. h["a]xa. The first part of the word is prob. the same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood woman, wild woman. [root]12.]
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.] ``[Silenus] that old hag.''
--Golding.An ugly old woman.
--Dryden.A fury; a she-monster.
--Crashaw.(Zo["o]l.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch ( Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotreta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
(Zo["o]l.) The hagdon or shearwater.
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An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
--Blount.Hag moth (Zo["o]l.), a moth ( Phobetron pithecium), the larva of which has curious side appendages, and feeds on fruit trees.
Hag's tooth (Naut.), an ugly irregularity in the pattern of matting or pointing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who is boring 2 A person who bores, who drills. 3 A tool used for drilling. 4 An insect or insect larva that bores into wood. 5 One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock. 6 The hagfish (''Myxine'').
WordNet
n. a drill for penetrating rock [syn: bore bit, rock drill, stone drill]
any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood [syn: woodborer]
Wikipedia
Borer may refer to:
Usage examples of "borer".
At least the borer was where she had left it last, carefully secured to its storage stand.
The borer, really just a pocket fusion torch, worked by vaporizing and ionizing a small percentage of the rock.
Her helmet lamp and the occasional dazzling flare from the borer were the only light.
Coyote retreated back up her tunnel with the borer, glad to be done with it.
The Gopher borer sat hunched down on the surface outside the dome, and the dozers were still clearing the huge masses of pulverized rock the Gopher had heaved back toward the surface.
It is much more important, you see, than measuring nutrient levels and concocting chemical formulae for the annihilation of borer beetles.
When you find it, slice the stem upward from the hole to find the fat, well-fed borer and remove it with tweezers or a small crochet hook.
The only nice thing about these little worms is that, unlike the corn borer, they enter the corn at the tip, and mostly only one worm inhabits an ear.
The Japanese beetle, the citrous scale, the chestnut blight, and the elm borer spread to every corner of the world, and from one forgotten pesthole in Borneo, leprosy, long imagined extinct, reappeared.
June is the month of all months for the prudent orchardist to go thus armed, for the apple-tree borer is abroad in the land.
In many areas they have become one of the most effective, as well as safest, ways to take care of pest problems like cutworms, armyworms, root maggots, borers, Wireworms and cabbage white caterpillars.
These borers often attack at a fork and their tunnel entrances are covered with a coating of droppings held together with silk webbing.
Worms, viruses, and Trojan horses would be their gifts to Grandmother, and they would leave explosive blocks, borers, and scramblers to infect the remaining data.
She nicked out flat stones to make a deeper well for fat for lamps, and she dried new moss wicks, knapped a new set of knives, scrapers, saws, borers, and axes, searched the seashore for shells to make spoons, ladles, and small dishes.
They had a handful of stones which they knapped quickly to make knives and borers, and with these they worked the food they had managed to gather during the day within a few hundred meters of the hut.