borer vs chive

borer

noun
  • A knife fit for a stabbing. 

  • A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes. 

  • A cyclostome, such as a hagfish, which bores into injured, dead, or decaying sea creatures to feed on their flesh. 

  • One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock. 

  • A tool used for drilling. 

  • A tedious person; a person who bores others; a bore. 

  • An insect or insect larva that bores into wood. 

chive

noun
  • A knife. 

  • A saw. 

  • The spring onion; The green onion; the scallion. 

  • A file. 

  • The leaves of this plant used as a herb. 

  • A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion. 

verb
  • To cut. 

  • To stab. 

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