Meaning of बरमा in English
- A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.
- An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water.
- One that bores; an instrument for boring.
- A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.
- Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.
- One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.
- The hagfish (Myxine).
- A spit; a broach.
- One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter.
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