fishtail bit

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   a drilling bit with cutting edges usually hardened against wear

   Synonymsblade bit

   Broaderdrilling bit

Questions about fishtail bit

What does fishtail bit mean?

fishtail bit means "a drilling bit with cutting edges usually hardened against wear".

What is another word for fishtail bit?

Close synonyms include blade bit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fishtail bit a common word?

fishtail bit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.