bore hole
51coun|ter|bore — «verb. KOWN tuhr BR, BOHR; noun. KOWN tuhr BR, BOHR», verb, bored, bor|ing, noun. –v.t. 1. to bore out (a cylindrical hole) for a certain distance so as to form a flat bottomed enlargement for receiving the head of a screw or the like. 2. to form …
52Hugh Marshall Hole — Hugh Marshall Hole, (1865 1941) was an English pioneer, administrator and author. Born in Tiverton in Devon, England, Marshall Hole came to South Africa in 1889 and met the mine magnate and politician Cecil Rhodes in Kimberley. Rhodes offered him …
53full bore — /fʊl ˈbɔ/ (say fool baw) noun 1. the maximum production (of oil or gas from a drill hole). 2. the full bore, Colloquial the maximum: give it the full bore. –adverb 3. Colloquial with maximum effort; with the greatest possible speed or… …
54Post hole — Post Post, n. [AS., fr. L. postis, akin to ponere, positum, to place. See {Position}, and cf. 4th {Post}.] 1. A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a… …
55Mo|hole — «MOH hohl», noun. an experimental drilling project to bore into the earth s mantle to obtain geological specimens and to verify the Mohorovicic discontinuity. The project was financed by the United States government and ended by Congress in 1966 …
56button-hole — v. a. Persuade importunately, hang about, prose at, bore …
57cross-bore — n. a hole drilled into the face of a door where a bored or interconnected lockset is to be installed …
58edge-bore — n. a hole drilled into the edge of a door where a bored or interconnected lockset is to be installed …
59piston bore — The diameter of the hole in the cylinder block in which the piston moves back and forth between top dead center (TDC) and bottom dead center (BDC) …
60rat hole — A boring for oil made by a drill or small bore. Honolulu Oil Corp. v Halliburton, 306 US 550, 83 L Ed 980, 59 S Ct 662 …
