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counterbalancing | counterbattery fire | counterblast | counterblow | counterbombardment | counterbore | counterbrace | counterbuff | countercast | countercaster | counterchallenge

counterbore

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Noun, Verb (transitive)
 : 
coun=ter=bore

CIDE DICTIONARY

counterboren. 
  •  A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.  [1913 Webster]
counterborev. t. 
     To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.  [1913 Webster]

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