borer

Meanings

Plural: borers

Noun

• a drill for penetrating rock
• any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood
• A tool used for drilling.
• A knife fit for a stabbing.
• A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes.
• A tedious person, who bores others; a bore.
• An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
• One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
• A cyclostome, such as a hagfish, which bores into injured, dead, or decaying sea creatures to feed on their flesh.
• The penetrating root of a parasitic plant.

Synonyms

bassy, bore bit, cheffer, chete, ching, cutter, jook, jooker, nank, poker, pokey, rambo, rock drill, shank, splash, splasher, stone drill, wetter, woodborer, ying