boring machine

American  

noun

1. Metalworking.  a machine for boring holes in which the cutter is rotated, usually about a horizontal axis.

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Example Sentences

To get to the boring machine we are driven for an hour in a buggy in the tunnel.

From BBC

"There were tall mounds of mud and soft soil. The boring machine that was being used by the workers lay upside down, blocking all passage beyond."

From BBC

Fed up with Los Angeles traffic, Elon Musk launched The Boring Co. with two tweets in 2016, promising “to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging.”

From Los Angeles Times

Drilling was also paused on Wednesday after the boring machine hit a metal girder, causing some damage to its blades and a six-hour delay as rescuers worked to clear the obstacle.

From Seattle Times

Builders must somehow thread the needle below streets and utilities, while crisscrossing above the 1989 downtown transit tunnel, when a tunnel boring machine digs south from Uptown toward Sodo.

From Seattle Times