borer

3 definitions found

borer - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hag \Hag\ (h[a^]g), n. [OE. hagge, hegge, witch, hag, AS.
     h[ae]gtesse; akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan.
     hex, Sw. h[aum]xa. The first part of the word is prob. the
     same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood
     woman, wild woman. [root]12.]
     1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.]
        "[Silenus] that old hag." --Golding.
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     2. An ugly old woman. --Dryden.
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     3. A fury; a she-monster. --Crashaw.
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     4. (Zool.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine  glutinosa
        ), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial
        mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill
        openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotreta.
        Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and
        sleepmarken.
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     5. (Zool.) The hagdon or shearwater.
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     6. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a
        man's hair. --Blount.
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     Hag moth (Zool.), a moth (Phobetron pithecium), the larva
        of which has curious side appendages, and feeds on fruit
        trees.
  
     Hag's tooth (Naut.), an ugly irregularity in the pattern of
        matting or pointing.
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  Borer \Bor"er\, n.
     1. One that bores; an instrument for boring.
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     2. (Zool.)
        (a) A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and
            allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.
        (b) Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.)
            which bores into limestone and similar substances.
        (c) One of the larv[ae] of many species of insects, which
            penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See
            Apple borer, under Apple.
        (d) The hagfish (Myxine).
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borer - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  borer
      n 1: a drill for penetrating rock [syn: bore bit, borer,
           rock drill, stone drill]
      2: any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into
         wood [syn: woodborer, borer]