Definitions for auger

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auger au·ger

Spelling: [aw-ger]

IPA: /ˈɔ gər/

Auger is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in auger (aegru).

Definitions for auger

noun

1. Carpentry. a bit, as for a brace. a boring tool, similar to but larger than a gimlet, consisting of a bit rotated by a transverse handle.
2. earth auger.
3. a device consisting of a shaft with a broad helical flange rotating within a cylindrical casing to force bulk materials from one end to the other.
4. snake (def 3a).

Origin of auger

before 900; Middle English nauger (a nauger misdivided as an auger; cf. adder¹, apron), Old English nafogār nave-piercer (cognat

Examples for auger

Many of these holes are as round and as cleanly cut as if they had been made with an auger.

This point fits into a hole pecked with a point or bored with an auger into the door-sill.

He took the auger, and quickly bored an inch hole in the scuttle.

As he puts the question, Davis points his auger to the bottom of the ship.

They next tapped the maple-trees on the south side, with an auger of an inch and a half.

Jack twitched the auger from one of the seamen and flung it into the lagoon.

These round holes might be fashioned with an auger, so regular are they.

Next he took an auger and bored a hole in each end of the three pieces.

Then Baugi took the auger again and he bored deeper and deeper into the rock.

He goes over it again, verse by verse, and auger accompanies him.