borehole

[ bawr-hohl, bohr- ]

nounMining.
  1. a hole drilled in the earth, as for the purpose of extracting a core, releasing gas, oil, water, etc.

Origin of borehole

1
First recorded in 1700–10; bore2 + hole

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How to use borehole in a sentence

  • In the trial boreholes at the Backs of the Colleges there was only this kind of record of former swamp vegetation.

    Notes on the Fenland | T. McKenny Huges

British Dictionary definitions for borehole

borehole

/ (ˈbɔːˌhəʊl) /


noun
  1. a hole driven into the ground to obtain geological information, release water, etc

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