The Collaborative International Dictionary
bore-hole \bore-hole\ n. (mining) a hole or passage made by a drill, especially one made for exploratory purposes.
Syn: bore, drill hole.
WordNet
n. a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes [syn: bore, drill hole]
Usage examples of "bore-hole".
The Stone was identical, but lined with excavations and dimpled with the bore-hole depressions.
I want the archaeologists back at the compounds, and the bore-hole studies shut down, too.
He won’t be told, because he’d slap you in the bore-hole detention center and ship you back on the next OTV run, in imus, so to speak.
Heineman searched the corridor bore-hole science records for any echoes from such a distance and found none.
He resembled Major General Sosnitsky, but he also looked a bit like poor Zhadov, who had died in the bore-hole massacre, wherever that was, and whenever.
Freeze it in plastic bags the size of the bore-holes so it will go down.
Its cables led snakily for a couple of hundred feet to a very small pile of grayish soil which had been taken out of a bore-hole, and went over that untidy heap and down into the ground.