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bore sighting

bore sighting is the present participle and gerund of bore sight.

Meaning of bore sight

Verb

bore sight (third-person singular simple present bore sights, present participle bore sighting, simple past and past participle bore sighted)

  1. To align the sights and aiming point of a firearm using a bore sight optical tool.

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Questions about bore sighting

What is bore sighting the present participle and gerund of?
Bore sighting is the present participle and gerund of bore sight.

Words near bore sighting in the dictionary

  1. bore on
  2. bore oneself
  3. bore out
  4. bore sight
  5. bore sighted
  6. bore sighting
  7. bore sights
  8. bore the brunt
  9. bore the scars
  10. bore up
  11. bore upon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bore sighting (page history and authors); bore sight (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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