boring machine

noun

1. Metalworking. a machine for boring holes in which the cutter is rotated, usually about a horizontal axis.

Example Sentences

Fed up with Los Angeles traffic, Elon Musk launched The Boring Co. with two tweets in 2016, promising “to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging.”

From Los Angeles Times

Drilling was also paused on Wednesday after the boring machine hit a metal girder, causing some damage to its blades and a six-hour delay as rescuers worked to clear the obstacle.

From Seattle Times

About halfway through the afternoon of the second day with the heavy boring machine slamming me around, I felt a call from nature and I shut the machine down and went into the house to answer that call.

From Literature

Builders must somehow thread the needle below streets and utilities, while crisscrossing above the 1989 downtown transit tunnel, when a tunnel boring machine digs south from Uptown toward Sodo.

From Seattle Times

The company said its work had nothing to do with the subsidence, however, as the tunnel work under the town was finished over a decade ago, and used the less disruptive boring machine, instead of explosives.

From Reuters