The Collaborative International Dictionary
Terebrate
Terebrate \Ter"e*brate\, v. t. [L. terebratus, p. p. of
terebrare, from terebra a borer, terere to rub.]
To perforate; to bore; to pierce. [R.]
--Sir T. Browne.
Wiktionary
terebrate
vb. To bore or perforate.
Usage examples of "terebrate".
I have referred chiefly to the medical journals, but I would include with these the reports of medical associations, and those separate publications which, coming in the form of pamphlets, heap themselves into chaotic piles and bundles which are worse than useless, taking up a great deal of room, and frightening everything away but mice and mousing antiquarians, or possibly at long intervals some terebrating specialist.