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windbore

windbore noun: the lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.

Noun

windbore (plural windbores)

  1. The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.
    • A large stone, 18 inches thick, is bedded at the bottom of the shaft, for the windbore of the bucket pump to rest upon. The remainder of the shaft bottom is filled in with hard burnt bricks and Barrow lime, forming a level bottom […]1864, Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, volume 20, page 101

windbore meaning in Tamil

windbore in Tamil

காற்றுத்துளை

Forms of windbore

pluralwindbores

Origin of windbore

From wind + bore.

Questions about windbore

What does windbore mean?
Windbore means the lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.
What is windbore in Tamil?
Windbore in Tamil is காற்றுத்துளை. See Windbore meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is windbore?
Windbore is a noun.
What is the plural of windbore?
The plural of windbore is windbores.

Words near windbore in the dictionary

  1. windblocker
  2. windblockers
  3. windblown
  4. windboard
  5. windboards
  6. windbore
  7. windbores
  8. windborne
  9. windbound
  10. windbox
  11. windboxes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: windbore (page history and authors); windbore (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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