bosket
A grove; a thicket or small grouping of trees in a garden, park, or the like.
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borrowed light
1. A frame in an interior partition which is glazed, thereby permitting light from one interior space to fall in
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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.