With a large auger, boring a hole into something is much easier.
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Auger
//ˈɔ.ɡɚ//
Synonyms for "auger" (75 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (37)
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1 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
14 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
62 translations across 33 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τρύπανον noun (carpenter's tool)
Bulgarian
4 entries- бургия noun (carpenter's tool)
- свредел noun (carpenter's tool)
- сонда noun (hollow drill used to take core samples of soil)
- сондирам verb (drill holes using an auger)
Burmese
2 entries- လွန် noun (carpenter's tool)
- လွန်ပူ noun (carpenter's tool)
Catalan
1 entries- barrina noun (carpenter's tool)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 螺旋鑽 /螺旋钻 noun (carpenter's tool)
- 螺絲鑚 /螺丝鑚 noun (carpenter's tool)
Czech
1 entries- nebozez noun (carpenter's tool)
Danish
2 entries- naver noun (carpenter's tool)
- naverbor noun (carpenter's tool)
Esperanto
1 entries- borilo noun (carpenter's tool)
Finnish
4 entries- kaira noun (carpenter's tool)
- maakaira noun (hollow drill used to take core samples of soil)
- maaperäkaira noun (hollow drill used to take core samples of soil)
- kairata verb (drill holes using an auger)
French
3 entries- Auger name (Translations)
- tarière noun (carpenter's tool)
- tarière à trépan noun (carpenter's tool)
Galician
3 entries- tarabela noun (carpenter's tool)
- trade noun (carpenter's tool)
- tradar verb (drill holes using an auger)
Georgian
1 entries- ბურღი noun (carpenter's tool)
German
2 entries- Erdbohrer noun (hollow drill used to take core samples of soil)
- Holzbohrer noun (carpenter's tool)
Hawaiian
1 entries- wili nui noun (carpenter's tool)
Italian
3 entries- menarola noun (carpenter's tool)
- succhiello noun (carpenter's tool)
- verrinare verb (drill holes using an auger)
Jingpho
1 entries- lun bu noun (carpenter's tool)
Macedonian
2 entries- бургија noun (carpenter's tool)
- сврдел noun (carpenter's tool)
Middle English
1 entries- nauger noun (carpenter's tool)
Mon
1 entries- ခပူ noun (carpenter's tool)
Māori
1 entries- wiri noun (carpenter's tool)
Old English
1 entries- nafugār noun (carpenter's tool)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بورغو noun (carpenter's tool)
Persian
1 entries- برمه noun (carpenter's tool)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Boa noun (carpenter's tool)
Polish
1 entries- świder noun (carpenter's tool)
Portuguese
2 entries- trado noun (carpenter's tool)
- verrumão noun (carpenter's tool)
Russian
3 entries- бур noun (carpenter's tool)
- бура́в noun (carpenter's tool)
- сверло́ noun (carpenter's tool)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- svȑdlo noun (carpenter's tool)
- свр̏дло noun (carpenter's tool)
Slovak
1 entries- nebožiec noun (carpenter's tool)
Spanish
4 entries- barrena noun (carpenter's tool)
- barrena noun (hollow drill used to take core samples of soil)
- barreno noun (carpenter's tool)
- berbiquí noun (carpenter's tool)
Swedish
1 entries- navare noun (carpenter's tool)
Tagalog
2 entries- balibol noun (carpenter's tool)
- barena noun (carpenter's tool)
Turkish
1 entries- burgu noun (carpenter's tool)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
They were still looking for an auger to bore the holes for the fence posts.
Source: tatoeba (13373914)
The carpenter used an auger to drill holes in the wooden beams.
Source: tatoeba (13562083)
The archaeologists used a soil auger to collect samples from beneath the surface.
Source: tatoeba (13562085)
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