Definition of auger

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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..

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Sauger :: Sauger (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel..
Pickering :: Pickering (n.) The sauger of the St.Lawrence River.
Periauger :: Periauger (n.) See Pirogue.
Gauger :: Gauger (n.) One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
Terrier :: Terrier (n.) An auger or borer.
Bore :: Bore (n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger..
Auger :: Auger (n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge..
Horsefish :: Horsefish (n.) The sauger.
Bore :: Bore (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank..
Mauger :: Mauger (prep.) Alt. of Maugr.
Auger :: 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..
Miser :: Miser (n.) A kind of large earth auger.
Wimble :: Wimble (n.) An auger used for boring in earth.
Lip :: Lip (n.) The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
Terebra :: Terebra (n.) A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell..
Surveyor :: Surveyor (n.) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger..
Gauger-ship :: Gauger-ship (n.) The office of a gauger.
Malgre :: Malgre (prep.) See Mauger.
Gager :: Gager (n.) A measurer. See Gauger.
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