auger
/ˈɔː.ɡə(ɹ)//ˈɔ.ɡɚ/
auger noun: a carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
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Noun
auger (plural augers)
- 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
- A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool).
- A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts
- A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.
Verb
auger (third-person singular simple present augers, present participle augering, simple past and past participle augered)
- To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.
- To proceed in the manner of an auger.
- 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
- To daydream.
Proper noun capitalized: Auger
IPA/oʊˈʒeɪ/
Auger (plural Augers)
- A surname from French.
auger meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Tagalog and Malay
auger in Tamil
- தமரூசி, துறப்பணம், சுருட்டுறப்பணம், துரப்பணம், துரப்பணக்கருவி, நிலத்தைத் துளைக்கும் கருவி
auger in Bengali
- কাঠ, মাটিতে ছিদ্র করার যন্ত্র
auger in Tagalog
- carpenter's tool
- balibol, barena
auger in Malay
- carpenter's tool
- pelir itik, pelitik
More languagesFewer languages
- auger in Persian
- برمه barme
- auger in Myanmar
- လွန် lwan, လွန်ပူ lwanpu
Forms of auger
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | augers |
| alternative form | augre |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | augers |
| present participle | augering |
| past participle | augered |
| past | augered |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Augers |
Origin of auger
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.
* As a French surname, borrowed from French Auger. * As a German surname, a variant of Auer, with the -g- said to reflect a West Frisian influence. * As an English surname, variant of Alger.
Words formed from auger
- Auger effect
- Auger electron
- Auger electron spectroscopy
- Auger-Meitner effect
- Auger recombination
- Auger shower
- augerer
- auger-fish
- augerlike
- auger mining
- closet auger
- hydrauger
- pod auger
- auger in
Phrases with auger
Words that rhyme with auger
Questions about auger
- What does auger mean?
- Auger means a carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
- What is auger in Tamil?
- Auger in Tamil is தமரூசி, துறப்பணம், சுருட்டுறப்பணம். See Auger meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is auger?
- Auger can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce auger?
- Auger is pronounced /ˈɔː.ɡə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of auger?
- The plural of auger is augers.
Words near auger in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: auger (page history and authors); Auger (page history and authors); auger (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); auger (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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