Synonyms for auger

Grammar : Noun

Spell : aw-ger

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔ gər

Définition of auger

Origin : c.1500, faulty separation of Middle English a nauger, from Old English nafogar "nave drill," from Proto-Germanic *nabogaizaz (cf. Old Norse nafarr, Old Saxon nabuger, Old High German nabuger), a compound whose first element is related to nave (n.2) and whose second is identical to Old English gar "a spear, borer" (see gar). For similar misdivisions, see adder. The same change took place in Dutch (avegaar).

noun drill

Example sentences :

Jack twitched the auger from one of the seamen and flung it into the lagoon.
Extract from : « Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas » by Lloyd Osbourne

This point fits into a hole pecked with a point or bored with an auger into the door-sill.
Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America

Then Baugi took the auger again and he bored deeper and deeper into the rock.
Extract from : « The Children of Odin » by Padraic Colum

These round holes might be fashioned with an auger, so regular are they.
Extract from : « The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles » by Jean Henri Fabre

They next tapped the maple-trees on the south side, with an auger of an inch and a half.
Extract from : « Taking Tales » by W.H.G. Kingston

Many of these holes are as round and as cleanly cut as if they had been made with an auger.
Extract from : « The Innocents Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

As he puts the question, Davis points his auger to the bottom of the ship.
Extract from : « The Flag of Distress » by Mayne Reid

Next he took an auger and bored a hole in each end of the three pieces.
Extract from : « The Rival Campers Afloat » by Ruel Perley Smith

He took the auger, and quickly bored an inch hole in the scuttle.
Extract from : « The Last of the Flatboats » by George Cary Eggleston

He goes over it again, verse by verse, and Auger accompanies him.
Extract from : « The New Book Of Martyrs » by Georges Duhamel

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