Drawbore
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Drawbore is a noun meaning (transitive) To make a drawbore in.
Meaning
(transitive) To make a drawbore in.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.
- (joinery) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together.
Example Sentences
a drawbore pin
to drawbore a tenon
Word Forms
- drawbores
- drawboring
- drawbored
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include throughbore, bore, counterbore, drawbolt, drift, borer.
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