Borer

Borer may refer to:

Insects

• Common furniture beetle, also known as the common house borer
• Shoot borer
• Stemborer
• Twig borer

Moths

• Chilo (moth)
• Southwestern corn borer
• Ash borer, or lilac borer
• Squash vine borer, a pest of cucurbit vines
• Ostrinia, pests of maize and other plants

Beetles

• Banana root borer, a true weevil
• Ptinidae, a family of beetles, especially:
• Common house borer
• Woodboring beetle

Devices

• Cork borer, a tool of the chemistry laboratory
• Raise borer, a mining machine
• Instep borer, an instrument of torture
• Tunnel boring machine
• Reamer, a rotary cutting tool used in metalworking
• Drill

Other uses

• Borer Lake, United States
• , several ships
• בורר ("borer"), Sorting/Purification activities prohibited in Jewish law on Shabbat

See also

• Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer, a fictional mammal