Usually means: Tightening joints by offsetting holes.
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  1. drawbore: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. drawbore: Collins English Dictionary
  3. drawbore: Wordnik
  4. drawbore: Wiktionary
  5. drawbore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. drawbore: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Drawbore, drawbore: Dictionary.com
  8. Drawbore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. drawbore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Drawbore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. drawbore: Free Dictionary
  12. Drawbore: Dictionary/thesaurus

Definitions from Wiktionary (drawbore)

noun:  (joinery) 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.
verb:  (transitive) To make a drawbore in.
verb:  (transitive) To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.

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