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

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025

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 • Nov. 14, 2024

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 • Feb. 20, 2023

This round metal device, a custom-made tunnel boring machine that’s decorated with colorful handprints, was lowered into a 138-foot shaft weeks ago and is now preparing to dig a two-mile sewer tunnel in Alexandria.

From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2022

Sellers and Co. on their horizontal cylinder boring machine, is shown in Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

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