bore

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To make weary by being dull, repetitive, or tedious.
• noun One that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious.
• intransitive verb To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill.
• intransitive verb To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing.
• intransitive verb To make a hole in or through something with or as if with a drill.
• intransitive verb To proceed or advance steadily or laboriously.
• noun A hole or passage made by or as if by use of a drill.
• noun A hollow, usually cylindrical chamber or barrel, as of a firearm.
• noun The interior diameter of a hole, tube, or cylinder.
• noun The caliber of a firearm.
• noun A drilling tool.
• noun A high, often dangerous wave caused by the surge of a flood tide upstream in a narrowing estuary or by colliding tidal currents.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To pierce or perforate with a rotatory cutting instrument; make a circular hole in by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or anything that will produce the same effect: as, to bore a plank or a cannon; to bore the ground for water, or with a stick.
• To form or produce by rotatory perforation: as, to bore a hole or a well.
• To penetrate, make, or gain as if by boring; push or drive through or into by any penetrating action: as, to bore a plank, or a hole in a plank, with a rifle-ball.
• To befool; trick; overreach.
• To pierce or penetrate, as a gimlet or similar instrument; make a hole or holes: as, the auger bores well.
• To sink a bore-hole, as in searching for water, coal, etc.
• To be suited for piercing with an auger or other boring-tool: as, wood that bores well or ill.
• To push forward or through toward a certain point: as, “boring to the west,”
• In the manège, to thrust the head forward as far as possible: said of a horse.
• noun Any instrument for making holes by boring or turning, as an auger or gimlet.
• noun A hollow hand-tool used in nail-making to hold a nail while its head is being formed.
• noun A hole made by boring, or as if by boring: as, “an auger's bore,” Specifically
• noun Hence The caliber or internal diameter of a hole or perforation, whether made by boring or not, especially of the cavity of a gun or tube.
• noun A wound or thrust.
• To weary by tedious iteration or repetition; tire, especially in conversation, by insufferable dullness; tease; annoy; pester.
• In racing, to annoy or impede by crowding against or out of the way.
• noun An abrupt tidal wave which breaks in an estuary, the water then rushing up the channel with great violence and noise.
• noun Ennui; a fit of ennui or listless disgust or weariness.
• noun One who suffers from ennui.
• noun One who or that which bores one, or causes ennui or annoyance; anything which by dullness taxes the patience, or otherwise causes trouble or annoyance; specifically, a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person who tires or annoys by forcing his company or conversation on others, or who persists in uninteresting talk or undesired attentions.
• noun Preterit of bear.
• noun An obsolete spelling of boar.
• noun A kind of cabbage; borecole.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
• intransitive verb To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
• intransitive verb To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
• intransitive verb (Man.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
• transitive verb To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce.
• transitive verb To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
• transitive verb To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; ; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
• transitive verb To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
• transitive verb obsolete To befool; to trick.
• noun A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.
• noun Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
• imp. of 1st & 2d bear.
• noun A hole made by boring; a perforation.
• noun The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.