Auger

With a large auger, boring a hole into something is much easier.

They were still looking for an auger to bore the holes for the fence posts.

The carpenter used an auger to drill holes in the wooden beams.

The archaeologists used a soil auger to collect samples from beneath the surface.

Pete Burnett needs a fan belt for his auger.

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

There was no way to measure progress inside the sphere, to know whether it spun or leapt or wobbled like a top as it augered through the years.

It augers down again behind him to gyre like a mindless deadly battling top.