Forstner bit

Forstner bit
/fawrst"neuhr/, Carpentry.
a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
[1900-05; after Benjamin Forstner, its inventor]

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