Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word center-bit.
Examples
-
He is as stubborn as he is stupid, and to get a new thought into his head you would need to bore a hole in his skull with a center-bit.
Brave Men and Women Fuller, O E 1884
-
He is as stubborn as he is stupid, and to get a new thought into his head you would need to bore a hole in his skull with a center-bit.
Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867
-
He drilled with his center-bit three rows of holes in these, two inches from the edge.
Foul Play Charles Reade 1849
-
But to Isaac behind his flower-pots they were a little human chart spread out flat before him, and not a region in it he had not traveled and surveyed before to-day: what to others passed for accident to him was design; he penetrated more than one disguise of manner; and above all his intelligence bored like a center-bit into the deep heart of his enemy, Meadows, and at each turn of the center-bit his eye flashed, his ear lived, and he crouched patient as a cat, keen as a lynx.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.