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Auger

//ˈɔ.ɡɚ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from French.
Noun
  1. 1
    A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.

    "Pete Burnett needs a fan belt for his auger."

  2. 2
    hand tool for boring holes wordnet
  3. 3
    A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool).
  4. 4
    a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes wordnet
  5. 5
    A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts
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  1. 6
    A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.
Verb
  1. 1
    To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.
  2. 2
    To proceed in the manner of an auger.

    "It augered into the water and vanishedunder the surface only to float up again, its keel pointing skyward."

  3. 3
    To daydream. uncommon

Etymology

Etymology 1

From a rebracketing of Middle English a nauger (seen as an + auger), from Old English nafugār (“nave drill”, literally “nave spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *nabugaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *nabōgaizaz. Cognate with Dutch avegaar.

Etymology 2

From a rebracketing of Middle English a nauger (seen as an + auger), from Old English nafugār (“nave drill”, literally “nave spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *nabugaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *nabōgaizaz. Cognate with Dutch avegaar.

Etymology 3

* As a French surname, borrowed from French Auger. * As a German surname, a variant of Auer, with the -g- said to reflect a West Frisian influence. * As an English surname, variant of Alger.

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