Usually means: Cylindrical hole drilled into ground.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. borehole: Merriam-Webster
  2. borehole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. borehole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. borehole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Borehole, borehole: Wordnik
  6. borehole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. borehole: Wiktionary
  8. borehole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. borehole: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. borehole: Dictionary.com
  11. Borehole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. borehole: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. borehole: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. borehole: Encyclopedia

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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noun:  A hole bored into the ground to collect samples for analysis or to extract oil or water.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To bore a hole of this kind (in).

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