| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Increment borer | Environment | Sometimes called increment boring tool, it is a tool used to cut a plug from a tree to permit a count of the growth rings in determining the age of the tree. (references) | |
| Increment borer | Forestry | A tool used to extract a core of wood from a living tree for the purpose of studying the annual growth rings of the tree. (references) | |
| Increment borer | Geophysics | A manual tool used to bore and extract a thin cylinder of wood from tree stems. (references) | |
| Increment borer | History & Folklore | An auger-like instrument with a hollow bit and an extractor (" spoon"), used to extract thin increment cores from tree stems. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
