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Yes, bore is playable

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"Bore" Definition

noun

A drilling tool.
A high, often dangerous wave caused by the surge of a flood tide upstream in a narrowing estuary or by colliding tidal currents. Also called eagre.
A hole or passage made by or as if by use of a drill.
A hollow, usually cylindrical chamber or barrel, as of a firearm.
One that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious.

verb

Past tense of bear1.
To pierce with a turning or twisting movement of a tool.
To make (as a cylindrical hole) by boring or digging away material .
To make a hole by or as if by boring.
To sink a mine shaft or well.

verb-transitive

To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing.
To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill.
To make weary by being dull, repetitive, or tedious: The movie bored us.

verb-intransitive

To make a hole in or through something with or as if with a drill: "three types of protein that enable the cells to bore in and out of blood vessels” ( Elisabeth Rosenthal).
To proceed or advance steadily or laboriously: a destroyer boring through heavy seas.

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