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Word Meanings - PIERCEABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That may be pierced.

Related words: (words related to PIERCEABLE)

  • PIERCER
    1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor.
  • PIERCEL
    A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.
  • PIERCING
    Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust. "Piercing eloquence." Shak. -- Pier"cing*ly, adv. -- Pier"cing*ness, n.
  • PIERCE
    LL. pertusiare for pertusare, fr. L. pertundere, pertusum, to beat, push, bore through; per through + tundere to beat: cf. OF. pertuisier to pierce, F. pertuis a hole. Cf. Contuse, Parch, 1. To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed
  • PIERCEABLE
    That may be pierced.
  • PIERCED
    Penetrated; entered; perforated.
  • TRANSPIERCE
    To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.
  • IMPIERCE
    To pierce; to penetrate. Drayton.
  • EMPIERCE
    To pierce; to impierce. Spenser.
  • ENPIERCE
    To pierce. Shak.
  • IMPIERCEABLE
    Not capable of being pierced; impenetrable. Spenser.
  • EAR-PIERCER
    The earwig.

 

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