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backboring

backboring is the present participle and gerund of backbore.

Meaning of backbore

Verb

backbore (third-person singular simple present backbores, present participle backboring, simple past and past participle backbored)

  1. (transitive) To modify (a weapon's barrel) so as to increase the bore diameter.
  2. To bore from the backside of a workpiece by using a boring tool that passes through one or more through holes, deploys a cutting edge (or receives it by manual insertion from an operator), bores a feature on the far side, retracts the cutting edge (or has it removed), and then retreats back through the hole (toward the tool's origin).

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Noun

backboring (uncountable)

  1. The act or process by which one backbores.

Questions about backboring

What does backboring mean?
Backboring means the act or process by which one backbores.
What is backboring the present participle and gerund of?
Backboring is the present participle and gerund of backbore.
What part of speech is backboring?
Backboring is a noun.

Words near backboring in the dictionary

  1. backbonelessness
  2. backbones
  3. backbore
  4. backbored
  5. backbores
  6. backboring
  7. backbox
  8. backboxes
  9. backbreaker
  10. backbreakers
  11. backbreaking

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