The borer swallows these, and then pokes down its tooth-ribbon once more.
The tooth-ribbon is used in this way: When a borer meets with a victim, it fastens itself to it by means of its fleshy, muscular "foot.
In this case the borer would appear to have somewhat resembled a centre-bit or pin-drill.
Sometimes the borer consists of merely a long narrow pointed flake, which has had the point trimmed to a scraping edge on either side.
A borer of this kind has been experimentally[1444] tried and found efficient for drilling a hole in jet.
The borer D is adapted to bore the hole for the centre pin in a direction exactly perpendicular to the surface resting against the three screws; the other, at E, perforates the holes for the commencement of the sheave holes.
A projecting piece of metal, from the under side of the slider K of the borer E, stops against the ends of these screws, to limit the excursion of the borer.
By this means the borer E can be moved within certain limits, so as to bore holes in different positions.
The borerappears to a stranger to be a very awkward and unsteady mechanism, but its perpetual vibrations do not affect the accuracy of the bore.
Roman engine for making a breach in a wall: the borer or ovipositor of various insects.
The Chairman: Isn't that the poplar tree borer that always attacks the Lombardy?
This borer is the principal cause of the death of thousands of hickory trees.
The hickory borer eats its way into the bark of the hickory trees in mid-summer.
It would be very difficult to transfer the photic borer to the other building, and I can light up the interior perfectly well by means of electric lights.
Margaret was greatly troubled because of the effect of this result of the lightborer upon Roland.
The borer is the despair of the land-owner; he works underground; no Sicilian vespers for him until he becomes a cockchafer!
Thus, while awaiting the harvest and gleaning, fifty old women imitated the borer at the feet of five or six hundred trees which were fated to become skeletons and to put forth no more leaves in the spring.
The borer charges less, the iron is softer, the filer has less, and all items clubbed amount to something.
Illustration] Boring and grinding gun-barrels generally take place under the same roof; the borer occupying a very small shop, the grinder a large one.
The party broke up soon afterwards, and early next morning Agatha left the mine with Thirlwell, Drummond, and a white rock-borer as well as the half-breed packers.
A steam-engine keeps the line in constant motion, perpendicularly up and down, and the borer eats deeper and deeper into the earth.
To reach the oil a tower of wood 50 to 65 feet high is erected, and a line with a powerful borer runs over a block at the top.
While in Mississippi, I first came into contact with the hickory bark borer by its work on the hickories on the lawn in front of my house and on the Campus.
President Morris: If we have evidence that the hickory bark borer can destroy ninety per cent of the hickory trees on an estate so well cared for as the Wadsworth estate, it indicates a menace to the whole hickory forests of the North.
The hickory bark boreris found all over the eastern United States, from Canada to the Gulf, and as far west as Nebraska.
The real method of getting at this hickory bark borer is for everybody to cooperate and cut those trees out, or at least the affected parts of the tree, before the first of May.
The painted hickory borer is supposed to occur chiefly on dead and dying hickories, but theborer of which I speak is found in the vigorous young hickories in the vicinity of my locusts, which are riddled with locust borers.
Numerous magnificent hickories have been killed by the pernicious hickory bark borer in the vicinity of New York city.
It may be the painted hickory borer (Cylene), or the locust borer.
I find a large borer at work on some of my hickories, but have not as yet determined its species.
We have in the hickory bark borer and the chestnut bark disease, two very serious propositions, the importance of which I fully appreciate.
He further says that he believes that hickory trees have some time in the past suffered from either a severe winter or drought, and that the shot-hole borer is attacking the weakened trees.
The red oak borer is a serious pest of trees in the red oak group.
The timing of the two-year life cycle of the red oak borer is such that the adult population is greatest in odd-numbered years.
It differs from the larva of the Linden treeborer (Saperda vestita) in the body being shorter, broader, more hairy, with the tip of the abdomen flatter and more hairy.
Among beetles, the various borers, such as the Saperda, or apple tree borer (Fig.
The "castings" of the Apple Tree Borer (Saperda bivittata) should be looked for at the base of the tree, and its ravages be promptly arrested.
An elm was killed by the Elm borer (Compsidea tridentata), and the owner was on the point of suing the Gas Company for the loss of the tree from the supposed leakage of a gas pipe.
With the tap borer clean out the end of one pipe a trifle, then with the turn pin enlarge this end just a little as shown in the figure.
Do not rasp through the wall of the pipe, but just enough so that the tap borer will enter the pipe with only a slight pressure.
One end of each piece is reamed out a little with the tap borerand spread a trifle with the turn pin.
The tap borer is used by grasping the handle firmly and putting the cutting point on the mark and then pressing down on the handle.
The center of the pipe is marked and a hole is made in it with the tap borer large enough to admit the bending irons.
The 5/8-inch pipe is tapped with the tap borerin the center.
During the operation of boring, the borer or cutter was fitted to slide along this bar, which being perfectly straight, served as a sort of ruler to guide the borer or cutter in its progress through the cylinder.
With a thin, sharp knife-blade the vines were carefully slit lengthwise on this spot, the borer extracted and killed and the vines in almost every instance speedily recovered.
The crown borer (Tyloderma fragariæ), a small brown weevil whose larva burrows in the crown and kills the plant.
The flat-headed apple-tree borer works just underneath the bark on any part of the trunk or large branches.
The round-headed apple-tree borer eats into the wood at the crown.
The borer is best handled by digging it out every spring and fall.
Remove cylinders from the longest diameter of each potato by means of an apple-corer or a large cork-borer (i.
The cork borer reserved for cutting the potato cylinders should be silver electro-plated both inside and out, and the knife used for dividing the cylinders should be of silver or silver plated.
This prevents the two-striped borer from laying its eggs in the tree, but would not be entirely effectual against the flat-headed borer, which attacks any part of the trunk and the branches.
You can take whale oil soap and dilute until it is about as thick as paint, and put a coating of it on the tree where the holes are, and I will bet you will never see a borer on that tree until the new crop comes.
Tomato growers are frequently faced with the problem of the destruction of tomato plants caused by the attacks of the larvae of the tomato stem borer moth.
The borer is also fashioned of an elongate flake and sometimes finished with a very fine point at one of its extremities.
Double graver or borer with points at the right and left of the upper end.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "borer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
