These are the meanings of the letters BROTE when you unscramble them.
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Bore (v. t.)
To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
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Bore (v. t.)
To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
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Bore (v. t.)
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
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Bore (v. t.)
To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
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Bore (v. t.)
To befool; to trick.
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Bore (v. i.)
To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
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Bore (v. i.)
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
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Bore (v. i.)
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
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Bore (v. i.)
To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
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Bore (n.)
A hole made by boring; a perforation.
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Bore (n.)
The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
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Bore (n.)
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
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Bore (n.)
A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
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Bore (n.)
Caliber; importance.
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Bore (n.)
A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
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Bore (n.)
A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.
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Bore (n.)
Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
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Bore ()
imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
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Bore (imp.)
of Bear
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Bort (n.)
Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.
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Robe (v. t.)
An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.
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Robe (v. t.)
A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
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Robe (v. t.)
To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green.
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Rote (n.)
A root.
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Rote (n.)
A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
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Rote (n.)
The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.
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Rote (n.)
A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.
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Rote (v. t.)
To learn or repeat by rote.
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Rote (v. i.)
To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
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Tore (imp.)
of Tear
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Tore ()
imp. of Tear.
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Tore (n.)
The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
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Tore (n.)
Same as Torus.
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Tore (n.)
The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
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Tore (n.)
The solid inclosed by such a surface; -- sometimes called an anchor ring.