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plural boreholes
A hole bored into the ground to collect samples for analysis or to extract oil or water. quotations examples
Extensive borehole information and tendered contract prices make these cost estimates much more plausible than earlier estimates.
2020 May 6, Jim Steer, “Full Business Case offers fresh insight into HS2's prospects”, in Rail, page 51
third-person singular simple present boreholes, present participle boreholing, simple past and past participle boreholed
(transitive, intransitive) To bore a hole of this kind (in). examples