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auger::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gimlet, screw auger, wimble |
| Type of | drill |
auger::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | plumber's snake, snake |
| Type of | hand tool, snake |
| Has types | trap-and-drain auger |
Examples of auger
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It takes only seconds for my Mora auger to cut a 6-inch hole in 6 inches of ice.
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If you put the new fuel in a chain saw or an ice auger, it may do severe damage.
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Our middle child, Joshua, used a wooden plunger to push the nuts into the auger.
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Auger helped fine-tune her moves until she could cross back over the boat's wake.
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An auger in a snow blower or grain elevator is essentially an Archimedes screw.
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Highwall mining is another form of surface mining that evolved from auger mining.
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As long as I don't have to drill too many holes, I enjoy using a manual auger.
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Auger said the city government should be in good shape regardless of what happens.
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Who wants a bottle of perfume or cologne when you can have this big dog auger?
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- Plumber's snake: a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
- Hand tool for boring holes
- An auger is a device for moving solid or liquid material by means of a rotating helical flighting. The material is moved along the axis of rotation. For some uses the helical 'flighting' is enclosed in a tube, for other uses the flighting is not encased. ...
- (Augering) An auger is a corkscrew like device with extended horizontal plates that collects excavated material. The auger is screwed into the ground, collects material, and is then raised out of the hole. ...
- (augering) a subsurface detection method using either a hand or machine-powered drill to determine the depth and character of archaeological deposits.
- (Augers) Long tubular pieces of equipment to move grain. Augers have a spiral shaft up the middle which pushes the grain from the lower end to the top end and into or out of storage units. ...
- Or "auger in," this is slang for crashing, usually head- or shoulder-first.
- In carpentry, a wood-boring tool used by a carpenter to bore holes.
- V. to involuntarily take samples of the local geology, usually with one's face, during a crash. See face plant.
