COUNTERBORE

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.

2.
n.

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.

3.
v.

To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.