Forstner bit
or Foerstner bit
[ fawrst-ner ]
nounCarpentry.
a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
Origin of Forstner bit
1First recorded in 1900–05; after Benjamin Forstner, its inventor
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