What does auger mean?

Definitions for auger
ˈɔ gərau·ger

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word auger.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. plumber's snake, augernoun

    a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes

  2. auger, gimlet, screw auger, wimblenoun

    hand tool for boring holes

Wiktionary

  1. augernoun

    A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet.

  2. augernoun

    A snake or plumber's snake .

  3. augernoun

    A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts

  4. augernoun

    A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.

  5. augerverb

    To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.

  6. Etymology: From nauger, from nafogar

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Augernoun

    A carpenter’s tool to bore holes with.

    Etymology: egger, Dut.

    The auger hath a handle and bit; its office is to make great round holes. When you use it, the stuff you work upon is commonly laid low under you, that you may the easier use your strength; for in twisting the bit about by the force of both your hands, on each end of the handle one, it cuts great chips out of the stuff. Joseph Moxon, Mechanical Exercises.

ChatGPT

  1. auger

    An auger is a tool used for making holes or moving material from one area to another. It typically consists of a rotating shaft with a helical blade or flighting, which acts like a screw conveyor, drilling through substances while moving them up along the shaft. Augers can be manually or power operated and are used in various applications, including woodworking, drilling in soil for foundation construction, ice fishing, and in machinery for moving grain or other bulk materials.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Augernoun

    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

  2. Augernoun

    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

  3. Etymology: [OE. augoure, nauger, AS. nafegr, fr. nafu, nafa, nave of a wheel + gr spear, and therefore meaning properly and originally a nave-bore. See Nave (of a wheel) and 2d Gore, n.]

Wikidata

  1. 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 for digging post holes is called an earth auger, handheld power earth drill, soil auger, or mechanized post hole digger. This kind of auger can be a manually turned, handheld device, or powered by an electric motor or internal-combustion engine, possibly attached to a tractor. Handheld augers can also be used for making holes for garden planting. Wood augers have a screw to pull them into the wood, as a gimlet has, and a cutting lip that slices out the bottom of the hole. The auger bit, meant to be used in a brace, also has cutting spurs to cut a clean circle deeper than where the lips scrape out the wood. In construction, augers are used for special drilling rigs to dig holes for deep foundation piles. Another use is for piles forming a piling retaining wall, which can be constructed in the same way as foundation piles. Augers – either gas- or hand-powered – are used by ice fishermen to drill holes to fish through. Drilling into maple trees to extract maple syrup is also carried out with the use of augers.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Auger

    aw′gėr, n. a carpenter's tool used for boring holes in wood.—n. Au′ger-bit, an auger that fits into a carpenter's brace (see Brace). [A corr. of nauger, an auger, A.S. nafugárnafu, a nave of a wheel, gár, a piercer. See Nave (of a wheel), Gore, a triangular piece.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Auger

    a French littérateur, born at Paris, renowned as a critic (1772-1829).

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. auger

    A wimble, or instrument for boring holes for bolts, tree-nails, and other purposes.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. AUGER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Auger is ranked #7911 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Auger surname appeared 4,182 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Auger.

    94.6% or 3,956 total occurrences were White.
    2.2% or 93 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.2% or 51 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.9% or 40 total occurrences were Black.
    0.6% or 26 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.3% or 16 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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  1. rugae

  2. argue

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of auger in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of auger in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of auger in a Sentence

  1. Daniil Medvedev:

    I was not playing my best, and Felix Auger-Aliassime... was all over me, i did n’t know what to do so I( asked) Daniil Medvedev of Russia, ‘ What would Novak do ? ’.

  2. Princeton University:

    These programs are paying off in terms of lower mortalityand better health for children. Since there is a great deal ofevidence that healthier children grow up to be healthier adults,these trends auger well for the future of these cohorts(populations).

  3. Nick Kyrgios:

    I’ve not played at this level for a long time and when you’re playing someone as good as Felix Auger-Aliassime I need to have my biggest weapon which is my serve, but I felt something in my ab.

  4. Princeton University:

    These programs are paying off in terms of lower mortality and better health for children. Since there is a great deal of evidence that healthier children grow up to be healthier adults, these trends auger well for the future of these cohorts (populations).

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