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Definition of the day : « auger »
- noun drill
- 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