'One of those bolts could make a bad split if it's a fraction too big or the hole bored too small', Ramage said.

Over the next century, studies were written, soundings taken, holes bored.

That hole bore a likeness to a trap door and I had no wish to be caught in such.

Look there - holes bored straight through the top of the cranium.

The nests of the rock pigeons which fluttered at its summit were only, in reality, holes bored at the very top, and on the irregular edge of the granite.

He wanted a hole bored near the tip of the crutch, wanted it reinforced with metal tubing and lined with chamois skin.

Then bore larger holes into the masonry for the shields.

The design called for wooden pegs to be driven holes bored into wooden beams to hold the design together.

The base stones of the 8x4 bay lecture hall include holes bored for swing doors.

This black hole bore the unmistakable shape of a struggling man.