Definition of "borers" [borers]

• Plural form of borer. (noun)

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• "It contains a toxic protein which kills fruit and shoot borers, which is destroyed during cooking and in the human gut."
• "• Corporate executives paid "borers" to infest Congress and state capitals, bribing government officials."
• "But notwithstanding the above, I assert that it is necessary to ship annually from Nueva España to the said islands two hundred quintals of rough and sheet and rod iron for some necessary articles, such as borers for the artillery cast in Manila, and rudder-pintles and rudder-gudgeons for the ships and galleys; for the iron of Bizcaya is more ductile than that of those regions [_i. e_.,"