Word Meanings - COUNTERBORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head. 2. A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for

Additional info about word: COUNTERBORE

1. A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head. 2. A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.

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• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• BOTTOMRY
  A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• DEPTH
  The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content. (more info) 1. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface,or horizontal measurement backward
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• MOUTHFUL
  1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
• NORMAL
  According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal. (more info) square; prob. akin to noscere to know; cf. Gr. normal. See Known, and 1. According to an established norm, rule,
• DRILL PRESS
  A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• CUTTING
  1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
• MOUTHED
  1. Furnished with a mouth. 2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• SLIGHT
  Sleight. Spenser.
• DEPTHLESS
  1. Having no depth; shallow. 2. Of measureless depth; unfathomable. In clouds of depthless night. Francis.
• MOUTH
  An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as: The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc. The opening or entrance of any
• SULPHUR-BOTTOM
  A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• UNBOTTOMED
  Deprived of a bottom. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• LOUD-MOUTHED
  Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
• MISRECEIVE
  To receive wrongly.
• CORKSCREW
  An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• REDMOUTH
  Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.