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bores

n. (plural of bore English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: bore)

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Using test bores taken at random on the top surface and by direct observation from diggers, we found that they link up, not to a central brain, but to a flat layer of similar rootlets lying just above the subsurface.

Offhand, I can only remember about a dozen test bores in which lubricant was absent or present in very small quantities, but I can look up the map references for you in a few minutes.

Our test bores were very widely spaced, so that we could easily have missed picking up brain material, but I'm pretty sure now that it is there.

The support bores narrowed once they reached bedrock, and each of them incorporated a squared-off crosscut a half-meter wider than the diameter of the lower bore.

The rectangular support shafts socketed into those crosscuts, for their cross-section was also greater than the diameter of the lower bores.

You know they're through in two places-they have those gopher bores going.

How many rifles, smooth bores and pistols do you have on hand right now?

Wait a couple of days and we can add a dozen more pistols, four rifles, and maybe ten more smooth bores.

The shotguns were more accurate than arquebuses, even after the chokes were sawn off to produce cylinder bores which would handle solid slugs.

He wanted to take advantage of those perfect bores by using the best cannonballs in his arsenal, the ones which were the roundest and made the best fit.

Some of that inaccuracy, of course, was due to the simple fact that the American guns, with their tight-fitting balls in perfect bores, had a greater range than they were accustomed to.

And beyond it, east and west, the traffic disappeared into the twin bores of what a huge sign bolted to the living rock proclaimed to be THE EISENHOWER TUNNEL.

Those twin bores punching their way into the rock intimidated him, and as he drew closer, intimidation became outright terror.

In fact, Quan's own father had begun his apprenticeship in the family business manufacturing cannonballs out o f stone, and the art of cutting and reaming bores properly had been practically invented by one of Quan's uncles.

There's certainly not any way that it should be allowing you to cut such uniformly true bores!