Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person engaged in or an instrument used for boring wells.
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Examples
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It finally occurred to a well-borer that if he could make his drill hard enough and get it down far enough, keeping it cool by solidified carbonic acid during the proceeding, he would reach a point at which most of the metals would be viscous, if not actually molten, and on being freed from the pressure of the crust they would expand, and reach the surface in a stream.
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It finally occurred to a well-borer that if he could make his drill hard enough and get it down far enough, keeping it cool by solidified carbonic acid during the proceeding, he would reach a point at which most of the metals would be viscous, if not actually molten, and on being freed from the pressure of the crust they would expand, and reach the surface in a stream.
A journey in other worlds A romance of the future John Jacob Astor 1888
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And I knew a manufacturer, too, who went to bore an Artesian well for water, and hired a regular well-borer to do it.
Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847
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