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单词 to bore for coal, for water
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to bore for coal, for water
a. absol. and intransitive. To make a hole (modern use limited as in 1). Often with through, into, under, or other prep. In Mining, to sink a bore-hole (see bore n.1 3, Compounds), as to bore for coal, for water.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > become or make perforated [verb (intransitive)] > make (a) hole(s) > through something
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a1225 Leg. Kath. 1924 Swa þat te pikes and te irnene preones se scharpe and se starke borien þurh.
c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 52 A spere þoruȝ myn herte gan boore.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith vi. 26 Cut of his heade and pearsed and bored thorow his temples.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 166 And with a little pin Boares thorough his Castle wall. View more context for this quotation
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) x. 72 By cutting and boring [we] succeeded in penetrating it [the ice].
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 95 The hedgehog underneath the plantain bores.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 445 The Chinese method of boring with ropes instead of rigid rods.
figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 117 Those Milke pappes That through the window Barne [edd. bars] bore at mens eyes.
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