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Drawbore

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.

(v. t.) To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.

OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (See Project Gutenburg.)

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