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Boring machine

Boring machine may refer to:

  • a machine for boring (manufacturing) holes
  • Tunnel boring machine

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Boring machine (carpentry)

A carpenters boring machine is a hand driven machine to bore holes in beams such in the process of making a mortise or making holes for the wooden pegs which hold mortise and tenon joints together.

Usage examples of "boring machine".

Flashing my light around above me I could soon see the tunnel itself had been made by some kind of boring machine.

He was dead certain that Pitt wanted to check out the other end of the tunnel and observe the big boring machine in action.

The Boring Machine was a state-of-the-art Boring Machine, but its workings were invisible to all but the hard-hats, and the machine itself was, well, boring.

The picture showed a hundred-foot-long circular boring machine with a thrust ram, a debris conveyor, and a strange-looking unit on the front that pulled apart selected molecular bonds within the ice, producing powder-snow-size chunks small enough to be transported to the rear of the conveyors to the open sea.

The Vuuka was going at his prey like a boring machine, with no sign of slowing down.

Then as soon as that was finished, Nadia had been called over to help with a Sandvik Tubex boring machine, which they were using to drill cased holes through large boulders they ran into while laying a water line from the alchemists' to the permanent habitat.

Gilbenstock spent another fifteen minutes putting the final touches to his latest set of plans for a gigantic rock-boring machine, this one capable of drilling a perfectly triangular hole through a mountain, assuming anyone ever had a need for such a thing.