borer
/ˈbɔrər/
noun
- An insect or its larva that bores into wood, plants, or other materials, often causing damage.
- Farmers often struggle with the corn borer, which destroys crops from the inside.
- We treated the fence posts with a chemical to protect them from borers.
- The carpenter found that a borer had damaged the wooden beams in the attic.
- A tool used for drilling or making holes, especially in wood or metal.
- He used a hand borer to make small holes in the wooden plank.
- A borer is essential for creating clean holes in thick metal sheets.
- The machinist selected a spiral borer for the precise drilling job.
- A person or thing that bores, especially someone who talks in a dull or tedious way.
- The lecture turned out to be a borer, and half the audience fell asleep.
- At the party, he was such a borer that everyone tried to avoid him.
- She realized her coworker was a borer who only talked about his stamp collection.