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Synonyms for borer

Most common

poker cutter ching shank rock drill hag hag fish woodborer

All synonyms

Noun

1. Cutter — A knife fit for a stabbing

cutter, shank, poker, ching, wetter, rambo, pokey, splash, ying, bassy, jook, splasher, nank, cheffer, jooker, chete slang

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A knife fit for a stabbing.

Related words

Phrases
birch borer bronze birch borer

Forms

Plural
borers → cutters, shanks, pokers, chings…

Example sentences

  • poker Tom and his friends have a poker game every month.
  • cutter Ziri cut the sheet metal with a plasma cutter.
  • shank If the car breaks down, I’ll have to go by shank’s mare.
  • hag One day I, too, would like to be a mean old hag.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
borerfalling
pokerrising
cutterfalling
chingfalling
shankfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
hag1
4 letters
ying1, jook, nank
5 letters
poker2, ching1, shank1, rambo2, pokey2, bassy, chete
6 letters
splash1, cutter2, wetter2, jooker
7 letters
cheffer
8 letters
splasher
9 letters
woodborer

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (poker2 = 2 syllables).