Meaning

4 senses
  1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.

    Holzbohrer

    бурbur, бура́вburáv, сверло́sverló

    hand tool for boring holes

  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.

    Erdbohrer

Examples

4 sentences
  1. With a large auger, boring a hole into something is much easier.

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  2. The carpenter used an auger to drill holes in the wooden beams.

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  3. The archaeologists used a soil auger to collect samples from beneath the surface.

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  4. They were still looking for an auger to bore the holes for the fence posts.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
carpenter's tool:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
carpenter's tool:
hollow drill used to take core samples of soil:

Origin

From a rebracketing of Middle English a nauger (seen as an + auger), from Old English nafu

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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Forms

plural: augers
Singularauger
Pluralaugers

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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