Look up: Auger

1. Auger
   Soothsayer or diviner.
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2. Auger
   Meaning as a surname: From the Old English word `ealdgar` meaning `spear`.
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3. auger
   [n] - hand tool for boring holes
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4. Auger
   Long tubular pieces of equipment to move grain. Augers have a spiral screw inside an outer tube which pushes the grain from the lower end to the top end. They are usually powered by electric motors and vary in diameter from 75mm up to 300mm (Picture) gal/Machinery/madrier_disch.jpg
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5. auger
   Tool for boring holes. Originally, a carpenter's tool, with a cutting edge and a screw point, manipulated by means of a handle at right angles to the shank. In archaeology a large auger is used to...
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6. auger
   bored pile formed by boring a hole in the ground with the type of equipment used in well sinking or with a mechanical --, and filling the hole with concrete. Category: Building industry • a machine used for extruding a column (usually of plastic clay) from a die. The propelling action is...
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7. Auger
   In carpentry, a wood-boring tool used by a carpenter to bore holes.
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8. Auger
   Au'ger noun [ Middle English augoure , nauger , Anglo-Saxon nafegār , from nafu , nafa , nave of a wheel + gār spear, and therefore meaning properly and originally a nave-bore. See Nave (o...
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9. Auger
   Pierre-Victor, French physicist, *1899. ... See: Auger electron. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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10. auger
    gimlet noun hand tool for boring holes
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11. Auger
    • (n.) An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water. • (n.) A carpenter`s tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed cro...
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12. auger
    tool (or bit) used with a carpenter`s brace for drilling holes in wood. It looks like a corkscrew and has six parts: screw, spurs, cutting edges, ... [3 related articles]
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13. auger
    auger (AW gur) A tool for boring holes into wood, leather, etc.: 'He used an auger to make holes in the shoes for the shoelaces.'
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14. Auger
    Type: Term Pronunciation: awg′ĕr Definitions: 1. Pierre-Victor, French physicist, 1899-1993. See: Auger electron
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15. Auger
    A rotary drill that uses a screw device to penetrate, break, and then transport the drilled material (coal).
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16. AUGER
    In carpentry, a wood-boring tool used by a carpenter to bore holes
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17. auger
    auger (ô'gur) : see drill.
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18. Auger
    An auger is an instrument used for boring holes in wood, or other soft substances. It consists of a wooden or plastic handle and a steel shank terminated in a steel bit at the bottom.
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19. auger
    carpenter's tool for boring holes in wood, etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point, and a handle fixed at right angles to the top of the shank, by means of which the tool is worked round with both hands [OED].
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20. Auger
    An `auger` is a drilling device, or drill bit, that usually includes a rotating helical screw blade called a "flighting" to act as a screw conveyor to remove the drilled out material. The rotation of the blade causes the material to move out of the hole being drilled. An auger used ...
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