Crossword-Solution: BORER 5 letters, 112 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Borer	n.	One that bores; an instrument for boring.
Borer	n.	A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.
Borer	n.	Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.
Borer	n.	One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.
Borer	n.	The hagfish (Myxine).

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BORER	anagram	BORRE, BROER, REROB, ROBER

We have 112 clues for the answer “BORER”

Clue	Answers
Ash tree menace	1 answer
Auger or destructive beetle	1 answer
Auger or destructive bug	1 answer
Auger or drill	1 answer
Auger, e.g.	1 answer
Auger, for instance	1 answer
Auger, in use	1 answer
Awl, for example	1 answer
Beetle, at work	1 answer
Boll weevil or shipworm.	1 answer
Bug found in trunks	1 answer
Corn __ (crop-destroying larva)	1 answer
Corn __ (crop-infesting insect)	1 answer
Damaging bug	1 answer
Damaging insect	1 answer
Destructive bug	1 answer
Drill for penetrating rock	1 answer
Drill or termite	1 answer
Drill, essentially	1 answer
Drilling bug	1 answer
Drilling too.	1 answer
FRUIT beetle	1 answer
Forest beetle	1 answer
Fruit-tree foe	1 answer
Gimlet, for example	1 answer
Harmful digging insect	1 answer
Hole-making bug	1 answer
Hole-making bug or tool	1 answer
Hole-making insect	1 answer
Hole-making pest	1 answer
Insect that burrows in trees, fruits, etc.	1 answer
Invasive insect	1 answer
Leaf-attacking insect	1 answer
Longhorn beetle, for one	1 answer
Many a worm	1 answer
Orchardist's woe	1 answer
Rock-penetrating drill	1 answer
Ruiner of ears?	1 answer
Shipworm or boll weevil	1 answer
Shipworm or hagfish	1 answer
Shipworm, e.g.	1 answer
Termite, for example	1 answer
Termite, for one	1 answer
Termite, say	1 answer
Tool such as a drill	1 answer
Tool used for making holes	1 answer
Tree enemy	1 answer
Tree-damaging insect	1 answer
Tree-harming beetle	1 answer
Uninvited cornfield guest	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TREAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with BORER (5)

The barrel to be bored is buried upright in the ground, the borer is inserted into it, the top of the stick or vertical shaft is held by a cross-piece of bamboo with a hole in it, and the basket is filled with stones to get the required weight.

The Malay Archipelago, Volume I. (of II.) Alfred Russell Wallace 2001

That's the one weak point that the imprisoned water is sure to find, and that's where the borer will tap it--in the new well that the earthquake itself has sunk.” It seemed to her now that she understood his explanation perfectly, and she wondered the more that he had been so mistaken in his estimate of Adele.

A Sappho of Green Springs Bret Harte 2006

You buy and set out a choice pear-tree; you enrich the earth for it; you train and trim it, and vanquish the borer, and watch its slow growth.

Summer in a Garden, and Calvin, A Study Of Character Charles Dudley Warner 2016

The important thing is to keep the dead canes well pruned out, as the cane borer is one of the worst insect pests.

Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 2003

Like currants, the gooseberry must be sprayed to destroy the worms, and cut back and burnt to destroy the cane borer.

Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 2003

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 129 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).