A small army of miners and their wives and children had already taken up their abode, and the men were at work with the engineers in the preparatory borings already in full operation.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum
A few minutes later we crept away softly, and Natty took me to the swamp to show me the borings, telling me on the way of the woodcock's habits as he had seen them in the fall hunting.
"A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories"
William Long
In its typical form it consists of a tube of insulating material with metallic plugs at each end, and between them a mass of metallic powder, filings, borings, granules or small spheres, lightly touching one another.
"Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy"
John Ambrose Fleming