auger

plural augers · alternative augre

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

   Pete Burnett needs a fan belt for his auger.

   1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 231

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.

present singular third person augers · participle present augering · participle past augered · past augered · alternative augre

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

   It augers down again behind him to gyre like a mindless deadly battling top.

   2014, Steven R. Boyett, Mortality Bridge

   2 more examples

   It augered into the water and vanishedunder the surface only to float up again, its keel pointing skyward.

   2010, Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, The Silent Sea

   There was no way to measure progress inside the sphere, to know whether it spun or leapt or wobbled like a top as it augered through the years.

   2012, Ronald Wright, A Scientific Romance

3. uncommonArkansas; Missouri; Arkansas; MissouriTo daydream.

plural Augers

1. A surname from French.