different between revolving vs drawbore

English

Adjective

revolving (not comparable)

1. moving around a central point.
2. (finance) Relating to an account or line of credit where balances and credit roll over from one billing cycle to the next, such as a credit card.

Translations

Verb

revolving

1. present participle of revolve

Noun

revolving (plural revolvings)

1. The act of something that revolves or turns.
   • 1867, Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Sexology as the Philosophy of Life (page 245)

     The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.

English

Etymology

draw +? bore

Noun

drawbore (plural drawbores)

1. (joinery) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together.

Verb

drawbore (third-person singular simple present drawbores, present participle drawboring, simple past and past participle drawbored)

1. To make a drawbore in

   to drawbore a tenon

2. To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.

References

Anagrams

• bareword, bore draw, bore-draw, wardrobe