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bore | pall |

As a noun bore

is farmer.

As a proper noun pall is

, cognate to paul.

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 ----

    pall

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
  • (Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
  • (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.
  • (Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
  • * Fuller
    • About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, — the one for London, the other for York.
  • (heraldiccharge) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
  • A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
  • * 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate (2006), page 150:
    • Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime,
  • An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
  • (obsolete) nausea
    • (Shaftesbury)
  • (senseid) A feeling of gloom.
    • A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
    The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
    Derived terms
    * cast a pall * pallbearer * tarpaulin
    Synonyms
    * (heraldry) pairle

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cloak.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Lady Macbeth: 'Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell' (Macbeth Act I Scene v lines 48–9).

    Etymology 2

    from appall. Possibly influenced by the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
  • * Atterbury
    • Reason and reflection pall all his enjoyments.
  • To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.
    • The liquor palls .
  • * Addison
    • Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
    • We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.
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