found: Work cat.: Agee, J.K. The care and feeding of increment borers, 1986:introd. (a precision instrument specially designed to extract a thin cylinder of wood from a tree, shrub, log or pole)
found: Web. 3(increment borer: accretion borer)
found: The dict. of forestry, c1998(increment borer, an auger-like instrument with a hollow bit and an extractor used to extract thin radial cylinders of wood (increment cores) from trees having annual growth rings, to determine increment or age--note in wood preservation, the borer measures the depth of penetration of the preservative)
found: Hubbard, W. Forest terminology for multiple-use management, via WWW, Jan. 17, 2008(Increment borer: an auger-like tool that is drilled into the stem of a tree to extract a radial cylinder of wood. The age and growth rate of a tree can be determined from the annual growth rings visible on the cylinder of wood)
found: Lewis, R.A. CRC dictionary of agricultural sciences, via WWW, Jan. 17, 2008(accretion borer, a hollow auger used to remove a core of wood from a tree in order to estimate accretion by counting and measuring the width of annual rings)
