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full bore, n. and a.
Brit. |ˌfʊl ˈbɔː|, U.S. |ˌfʊl ˈbɔ(ə)r|
Forms: see full adj. and bore n.1
[‹ full adj. + bore n.1]
A. n.
1. A size, diameter, or quantity that exactly fills a particular pipe, tube, etc.; as much as a pipe or similar container can hold.
1635Early Laws Mass. 4 Mar. in N. B. Shurtleff Rec. Mass. Bay (1853) I. 137 It is likewise ordered, that muskett bulletts, of a full boare, shall passe currantly for a farthing a peece. c1699T. Savery in Sci. Monthly (1936) Sept. 272/2 My engine at 60, 70, or 80 feet, raises a full bore of water with much ease.
1971Science 19 Feb. 634 (advt.) The 7670A automatic sampler..washes the syringe by aspirating a full bore of new sample 5 or 11 times as desired.
2. at full bore: at full capacity; at maximum strength or speed. Cf. sense B.
1938‘N. Shute’ Kindling v. 10 The yard employed three thousand men when it was working at full bore. 1964C. Willock Enormous Zoo iii. 48 When one of the mums discovered that her children were missing she came back through the grass at full bore. 1982A. Limon in New Home Owner Man. vii. 118 The traps are deliberately made to run at full bore to cause siphonage, then the siphon is broken so that the final wash of water fills the traps again. 1992L. Gough Fall down Easy xx. 207 Greg started to let out the clutch, saw more blue and whites racing towards him, coming off the bridge at full bore.
B. adj. Usu. in form full-bore.
1. Firearms (chiefly Brit.). Designating a firearm of relatively large calibre, esp. one more powerful than a.22 rim-fire weapon. Also: designating shooting with such a gun.
In modern use, originally distinguishing the full-sized military or service rifle from the ‘miniature’ or small-bore firearms used (often indoors) for training or target practice.In Britain, under the terms of the 1997 Firearms (Amendment) Act, full- and small-bore pistols were banned, and a person wishing to possess a full- or small-bore rifle or a muzzle-loading pistol must be a member of an approved rifle club.
1666Brief Descr. Province Carolina 7 Provided always, That every Man be armed with a Musquet full bore.
1971Country Life 29 July 271/2 The postal strike caused many schools to abandon the attempt to fire both small-bore and full-bore [rifles] in one term. 1984Guns & Ammo (Nexis) Sept. 52 Autoloader fans may prefer a full-bore target pistol. 1993Air Gunner Nov. 22/2 With a beltful of Brocock's reusable.38 cartridge ammo round your waist, Brocock's fabulous revolvers offer all the thrills and spills of full-bore hand gunning—without the smoke! 2000Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 30 Nov. 3 If the army's decision to close the firing range at Trentham was final it could be the death knell for full-bore shooting in New Zealand.
2. That exactly fills or blocks a particular pipe, tube, etc.; that is as much as a pipe or similar container can hold.
1914Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (A.) 21392 To avoid the slightest drop in pressure between the thermo-junctions, a simple full-bore block of vulcanite..was substituted for the adjustable valve. 1920Proc. Royal Soc. (A.) 97 243 Full-bore plugs were provided at the lower end of these tubes. 1962Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 57 379 Gravity drainage systems..are designed for less than full-bore flow. 1987Limnol. & Oceanogr. 32 841 A clear PVC tube..with a surface controlled, fullbore opening ball valve.
3. colloq. (orig. U.S.). Possessing or exhibiting a specified quality, condition, etc., to the fullest possible extent; complete, thoroughgoing, full-blown.
1977Forbes (Nexis) 1 Nov. 98 There is a bill now in the banking committee that provides for a full-bore lending facility for credit unions to meet liquidity problems. 1982Christian Sci. Monitor (Electronic ed.) 9 Sept. (Sports section) 1 In Ditka, a former Bear tight end and Dallas assistant coach, Chicago got just the hard-nosed, no-nonsense type it wanted. He has run a mean training camp, with more full-bore scrimmaging than normal. 198380 Micro Mar. 30/1 A pair of disk drives and a printer joined up somewhere along the way, so by now it's a pretty full-bore system. 1991Spy (N.Y.) Nov. 5/2 The truth is, we aren't yet experiencing the full-bore nineties—we're still groping around the cusp between the eighties and nineties. 1997San Francisco Chron. (Electronic ed.) 8 June 40 This is music that combines the detailed particularity of an avant-garde technician with the moral sweep of a full-bore Romantic.
C. adv. Originally: to the full capacity or diameter of a pipe, etc. Hence in later use also gen.: at maximum capacity or full speed.
1756Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 320 When the water run [sic] full bore, at the rate of a gallon in 17 seconds, the heat of the water was found..to be 80 degrees above the freezing point. 1852Sci. Amer. 14 Feb. 173/1 The only condition of lead in water-pipes, running full bore, which was not met [etc.]. 1890Manufacturer & Builder Feb. 41/3 If a line of a dozen or more water closets is laid out, the soil pipe is at once increased to five inches in diameter, as if even the simultaneous discharge of ten times that number could begin to fill the soil pipe full bore. 1927Bulletin (Sydney) 30 June 13/4 If the cord is pulled while on a bridge or other undesirable stopping place, the driver may, by placing his brake-handle in ‘release’ position and working his pump hard and his engine ‘full-bore’, keep going, but only for two or three hundred yards at most. 1936Motor Man. (ed. 29) ii. 26 When the throttle is lying flat in the direction of gas flow, the engine is running ‘full bore’, the term generally used for this being ‘full throttle’. 1974E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes iii. 66 When Doctor Downs came roaring down, at the bottom of his buzz he hit the haystack full bore. You should have seen that field afterward, all hay and plane fragments. 1994G. Paulsen Winterdance iii. 74 They are no longer just sled dogs, or pets—they become distance dogs... Their shoulders grow, they gain weight in both fat and, more important, muscle, and their coats sleek up with added meat and fat (as much as they can eat when the training is going full bore). |