Borehole

Miners working in rotating shifts will dig a 4-meter passage with picks and pneumatic hammers from the bottom of the shaft toward the borehole, which is 100 meters (300 feet) deep and just 25 cm wide.

Mathafeni village about 600 kilometers southwest of Harare is in one of the driest districts in Zimbabwe, but a solar-powered borehole pumps water into a trough where some cattle are drinking.

Daniel drilled a borehole in the backyard.

Near-synonym: well

The state of the groundwater is monitored at various boreholes in the area.

Extensive borehole information and tendered contract prices make these cost estimates much more plausible than earlier estimates.

There were little boreholes in the oak beam, indicating that insects had once taken some interest in it.