Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BORE, v.i.

1. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
2. To pierce or enter by boring; as, an auger bores well.
3. To push forward toward a certain point. Boring to the west. – Dryden.
4. With horsemen, a horse bores, when he carries his nose to the ground. – Dict.
5. In a transitive or intransitive sense, to pierce the earth with scooping irons, which, when drawn out, bring with them samples of the different stratums through which they pass. This is a method of discovering veins of ore and coal without opening a mine. – Encyc.