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Definition of Borings
1. boring [n] - See also: boring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Borings
Literary usage of Borings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Wash borings, however, are in many cases sufficiently reliable for the purpose;
cost very much less than core borings; and may be carried down 100 ft. or ..."
2. Transactions by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers., Gerard H. Matthes (1905)
"Both these papers emphasize the unhappy results of speculative borings, undertaken
in defiance of the geological probabilities which can be postulated from ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1886)
"As is well known, cast-iron borings are a mixture of small particles of iron with
more or less of finely divided graphite, separated from the surfaces of ..."
4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"The wooden plug in the hopper is driven in tight, and the space between it and
the hopper is kept full of iron borings. By dexterously manipulating the wood ..."
5. The Catskill Water Supply of New York City: History, Location, Sub-surface by Lazarus White (1913)
"Wash borings. 2. Core borings. 3. Test shafts on the shores of the river from
... Wash borings. At fourteen cross-sections of the river, lines of borings ..."
6. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1904)
"Some of the most successful artesian wells in America, for instance those in
Ohio, were originally experimental borings for oil. The Sukkur boring, however, ..."
7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"Supplementary Note on Two Deep borings in Kent. By W. WHITAKER, SA, FGS,
Assoc.Inst.CE The boring at Chattenden Barracks, near Chatham, has been finished, ..."
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