Boring

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A hole made by boring.

II. Boring ·noun The chips or fragments made by boring.

III. Boring ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Bore.

IV. Boring ·noun The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.