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.
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Borehole
Synonyms for "borehole" (4 found)
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Translations
14 translations across 12 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- buruq noun (hole bored into the ground)
Belarusian
1 entries- свідраві́на noun (hole bored into the ground)
Estonian
1 entries- puurauk noun (hole bored into the ground)
Finnish
1 entries- porausreikä noun (hole bored into the ground)
Greek
1 entries- γεώτρηση noun (hole bored into the ground)
Hungarian
2 entries- fúrólyuk noun (hole bored into the ground)
- talajba fúrt lyuk noun (hole bored into the ground)
Macedonian
1 entries- дупнатина noun (hole bored into the ground)
Malayalam
1 entries- കുഴൽക്കിണർ noun (hole bored into the ground)
Polish
1 entries- otwór wiertniczy noun (hole bored into the ground)
Russian
2 entries- бурова́я сква́жина noun (hole bored into the ground)
- сква́жина noun (hole bored into the ground)
Swedish
1 entries- borrhål noun (hole bored into the ground)
Ukrainian
1 entries- свердлови́на noun (hole bored into the ground)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
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.
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Daniel drilled a borehole in the backyard.
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Near-synonym: well
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