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auger

Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.ɡə(ɹ)/

The English word “auger” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
  2. A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool).
  3. A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts
  4. A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.

verb

  1. To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.
  2. To proceed in the manner of an auger.
  3. To daydream.

Etymology

From a rebracketing of Middle English a nauger (seen as an + auger), from Old English nafugār (“nave drill”, literally “nave spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *nabugaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *nabōgaizaz. Cognate with Dutch avegaar.

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