Counterbore

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To bore out (a hole) to a larger diameter for a given depth.
  • noun. A tool-holder or tool-bar for a drilling-machine.
  • noun. A tool for boring out a portion of a hole to a larger diameter.
  • noun. An enlarged section of a drilled hole, made for the purpose of receiving the cylindrical head of a screw or some similar object.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.
  • noun. A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.
  • transitive verb. To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A cylindrical recess, typically machined around a hole to admit a screw so that it sits flush with a surface.
  • noun. The tool with which a counterbore is machined.
  • verb. To create such a cylindrical recess.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole
  • Word Usage
    "- Did he set the correct rotational speed and were counterbore diameter and depth correct?"
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