Usually means: Device or organism that drills holes.
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  1. borer: Merriam-Webster.com
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  3. borer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. borer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  14. borer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  17. borer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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(Note: See borers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Borer)

noun:  A tool used for drilling.
noun:  (MLE, slang) A knife fit for a stabbing.
noun:  A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes.
noun:  A tedious person, who bores others; a bore.
noun:  An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
noun:  One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
noun:  A cyclostome, such as a hagfish, which bores into injured, dead, or decaying sea creatures to feed on their flesh.
noun:  A surname.

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