boring bar
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of boring bar
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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An Underwood portable boring bar machine from the 1890s was recently used to bore out one of the locomotive’s cylinders.
From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2016
Rumford was engaged in superintending the boring of cannon in the military arsenal at Munich, and was struck by the amount of heat produced by the action of the boring bar upon the brass castings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
Sellers and Co. form the cutters for their celebrated car wheel boring bar machine as in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
An excellent form of boring bar and cutter is shown in Figs.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The boring bar is here supported in two heads, and is hollow, the feed screw for traversing the head carrying the boring cutters being within the bar.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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