borrow
Material taken from one location for use as fill elsewhere.
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boron-loaded concrete
High-density concrete having a boron-containing admixture or aggregate to act as a neutron attenuator. Also see radiation-shielding concrete.
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borning room
In colonial New England houses, a small room (adjacent to the warm kitchen or keeping room) in which babies were
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boring, borehole
A hole drilled in the ground to obtain soil samples for evaluation and to obtain information about the strata.
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bored well
A well constructed by boring a hole in the ground with an auger and installing a casing.