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bore | lore |

As a noun bore

is farmer.

As an adjective lore is

their.

bore

English

(wikipedia bore)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; confer German drillen.

Verb

(bor)
  • (senseid)To inspire boredom in somebody.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He bores me with some trick.
  • * Carlyle
    • used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
  • (senseid)To make a hole through something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored .
  • To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
    • to bore for water or oil
    An insect bores into a tree.
  • To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
    • to bore''' a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to '''bore a hole
  • * T. W. Harris
    • short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
  • To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
    • to bore one's way through a crowd
  • * John Gay
    • What bustling crowds I bored .
  • To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
    • This timber does not bore well.
  • To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
  • * Dryden
    • They take their flight boring to the west.
  • (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
    • (Crabb)
  • (obsolete) To fool; to trick.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, / Baffled and bored , it seems.
    Antonyms
    * interest
    Synonyms
    * See
    Related terms
    * (to make a hole) borer * (to inspire boredom) bored, boredom, boring

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hole drilled or milled through something.
    • the bore of a cannon
  • * Francis Bacon
    • the bores of wind instruments
  • The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired.
  • A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
  • A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
  • One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
  • Something that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome affair.
  • * Hawthorne
    • It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
  • Calibre; importance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic word for "wave".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bear)

    • Anagrams

    * * * English irregular simple past forms English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    lore

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lore, from (etyl) '', German ''Lehre . See also (l).

    Noun

  • all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
    • the lore of the Ancient Egyptians
  • * Milton
    • His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore .
  • The backstory created around a fictional universe.
  • (obsolete) workmanship
    • (Spenser)
    Derived terms
    * birdlore * booklore * catlore * doglore * faxlore * fishlore * folklore * photocopylore * woodlore * wortlore * xeroxlore

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
  • (anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
    • Derived terms
    * lored

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (lose)
  • * Spenser
    • Neither of them she found where she them lore .

    Anagrams

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