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We have spotted BORE (4 Letters) a total of 48 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with BORE and also when and where was it last seen:

Definition

of Bear
To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
To befool; to trick.
To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
A hole made by boring; a perforation.
The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
Caliber; importance.
A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.
Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.

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Usage among publishers:

  • New York Times: Sep 7, 2024
  • Wall Street Journal: Aug 17, 2024
  • LA Times: Jul 1, 2024
  • Universal: Apr 13, 2024
  • Thomas Joseph: Mar 27, 2024
  • New York Times: Feb 20, 2024
  • Newsday: Jan 7, 2024
  • USA Today: Dec 17, 2023
  • New York Times: Dec 3, 2023
  • LA Times: Nov 28, 2023
  • USA Today: Nov 25, 2023
  • LA Times: Oct 19, 2023
  • Universal: Oct 16, 2023
  • Newsday: Sep 30, 2023
  • Newsday: Jul 30, 2023
  • Universal: Jul 8, 2023
  • Universal: Jul 7, 2023
  • Newsday: Jun 27, 2023
  • Universal: Jun 2, 2023
  • Wall Street Journal: Apr 5, 2023
  • New York Times: Apr 4, 2023
  • Eugene Sheffer: Mar 30, 2023
  • New York Times: Mar 12, 2023
  • Newsday: Mar 7, 2023
  • USA Today: Feb 26, 2023
  • Wall Street Journal: Jan 23, 2023
  • LA Times: Jan 9, 2023