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Auger   /ˈɔgər/   Listen
Auger

noun
1.
A long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes.  Synonym: plumber's snake.
2.
Hand tool for boring holes.  Synonyms: gimlet, screw auger, wimble.



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"Auger" Quotes from Famous Books



... glebe, and about a quarter of a mile beyond the corner there opens upon it the big, heavy gate that the members of the Rev. Alexander Murray's congregation must swing when they wish to visit the manse. The opening of this gate, made of upright poles held by auger-holes in a frame of bigger poles, was almost too great a task for the minister's seven-year-old son Hughie, who always rode down, standing on the hind axle of the buggy, to open it for his father. It was a great relief to him ...
— The Man From Glengarry - A Tale Of The Ottawa • Ralph Connor

... suspected the builder to be a red-headed woodpecker in the top of a dead oak stub near by. Moving cautiously in that direction, I perceived a round hole, about the size of that made by an inch-and-a-half auger, near the top of the decayed trunk, and the white chips of the workman strewing the ground beneath. When but a few paces from the tree, my foot pressed upon a dry twig, which gave forth a very slight snap. Instantly the hammering ceased, and a scarlet ...
— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs

... thick; when two parallel grooves had divided the ice for a hundred feet, it was necessary to break the part that lay between with axes and bars; next they had to fasten anchors in a hole made by a huge auger; then the crew would turn the capstan and haul the ship along by the force of their arms; the greatest difficulty consisted in driving the detached pieces beneath the floes, so as to give space for the vessel, and they had to be pushed under ...
— The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne

... types which now attain their maximum of development in the warmer regions of the globe. Thus we find numerous species of Cones (Conus), Volutes (Voluta), Cowries (Cyproea, fig. 218), Olives and Rice-shells (Oliva), Mitre-shells (Mitra), Trumpet-shells (Triton), Auger-shells (Terebra), and Fig-shells (Pyrula). Along with these are many forms of Pleurotoma, Rostellaria, Spindle-shells (Fusus), Dog-whelks (Nassa), Murices, and many round-mouthed ("holostomatous") species, ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson

... our example, and spoil the pie by a superfluous plum!" added Augustus. "You counsel admirably; and one of these days, if you are not hung in the mean while, will, I venture to auger, be a ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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