Definition of "bore-hole" []

• A hole or passage made by a drill, especially one made for exploratory purposes. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Seventeen days later, when hope of finding them alive seems lost, a probe retracts from a bore-hole with an attached note: "We are all well here in the refuge – the 33.""
• "The camera was sent down through a bore-hole used for communications."
• "Wherever they went, they would routinely round up dozens, or even hundreds, of civilians and march them at gun point to a central place, like a school or bore-hole."