bore

A nearly vertical wall of water that may be produced as a result of a tide, tsunami, or seiche. Bores usually occur in funnel-shaped estuaries with sloping bottoms. Bottom friction slows the advancing wave front, and water piles up behind to produce a nearly vertical bore face. The rapidly moving wall of water is followed by a less steep rise in sea level accompanied by swift upstream currents.

Bore may refer to:

Bore (wind instruments), the hole down the middle of a wind instrument Tidal bore, a wave in a river caused by an incoming tide Bore Steamship Company, a Finnish shipping company Bore, Italy, a city in the province of Parma in Italy. (Wheel of Time)

"Bore" may also be used as a synonym for:

The action of carving out a hole The tool creating this hole, i.e. as a measurement it is generally used to refer to smoothbore guns such as shotguns and muskets and is generally used as equivalent to gauge which is the number of balls per pound of lead, later expressed in inches or millimeters. A person who is boring

Homophones

boar (the animal)

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