Usually means: Enlarging hole for flush screw.
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  1. countersink: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. countersink: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. countersink: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. countersink: Collins English Dictionary
  5. countersink: Vocabulary.com
  6. countersink: Wordnik
  7. countersink: Wiktionary
  8. countersink: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. countersink: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. countersink: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Countersink, countersink: Dictionary.com
  12. Countersink: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Countersink: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. countersink: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. countersink: Rhymezone
  16. Countersink: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. countersink: Free Dictionary
  18. countersink: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. countersink: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. countersink: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. countersink: Encyclopedia

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Woodworking Terms (No longer online)
  3. Countersink: Glossary of Woodworking Terms
  4. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (countersink)

noun:  A conical recess, typically machined at the mouth of a hole to admit a screw (with a matching taper) so that the screw sits flush with a surface.
noun:  The cutter used to cut such a recess. (Also used, at less depth, for edge-breaking/deburring.)
verb:  (transitive) To create such a conical recess.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To cause to sink even with or below the surface.

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