auger
pronunciation
How to pronounce auger in British English:
UK [ˈɔ:gə(r)]
How to pronounce auger in American English:
US [ˈɔɡɚ]
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- Noun:
- a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
- hand tool for boring holes
Word Origin
- auger (n.)
- c. 1500, faulty separation of Middle English a nauger, from Old English nafogar "nave drill," from Proto-Germanic *nabo-gaizaz (cognates: Old Norse nafarr, Old Saxon nabuger, Old High German nabuger), a compound whose first element is related to nave (n.2) and whose second is identical to Old English gar "a spear, borer" (see gar). For similar misdivisions, see adder. The same change took place in Dutch (avegaar).
Example
- 1. He drilled the anus of one man with an auger , and shoved the face of another hard into barbed wire .
- 2. The author discussed some key techniques in auger string hole straightening .
- 3. That was a good idea but , honestly , I don 't think an auger would cut this stuff either .
- 4. This does not auger well either for growth or working our way out of today 's crisis .
- 5. Standard guide for depth profiling in auger electron spectroscopy .