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auger

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AUGER

n. An instrument for boring large holes, chiefly used by carpenters, joiners, cabinet makers, wheelwrights and shipwrights. It consists of an iron blade, ending in a steel bit, with a handle placed at right angles with the blade. Augers, made with a straight channel or groove, in some places, are called pod-augers; the modern augers, with spiral channels, are called screw-augers.

 

AUGER-HOLE

n.A hole made by an auger.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

AUGER

Au "ger, n. Etym: [OE. augoure, nauger, AS. nafegar, fr. nafu, nafa,nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and originally a nave-bore. See Nave (of a wheel ) and 2d Gore, n.]

 

1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.

 

2. An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water. Auger bit, a bit with a cutting edge or blade like that of an anger.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

auger

au ger |ˈôgər ˈɔɡər | ▶noun a tool with a helical bit for boring holes in wood. • a similar larger tool for boring holes in the ground. ORIGIN Old English nafogār, from nafu (see nave 2 ) + gār ‘piercer. ’ The n was lost by wrong division of a nauger; compare with adder and apron .

 

Auger effect

Au ger ef fect |ōˈZHā oʊˌʒeɪ əˈfɛkt | ▶noun Physics a process in which an electron in an outer shell of an atom makes a transition to a vacancy in an inner shell. The energy gained is transferred to an electron that escapes from the atom. ORIGIN 1930s: named after Pierre V. Auger (1899 –1944 ), French physicist.

 

Oxford Dictionary

auger

auger |ˈɔːgə | ▶noun 1 a tool resembling a large corkscrew, for boring holes in wood. • a large tool similar to an auger, used for boring holes in the ground. 2 (also auger shell ) a marine mollusc of warm seas with a slender tapering spiral shell. ●Terebra and other genera, family Terebridae, class Gastropoda. ORIGIN Old English nafogār, from nafu (see nave 2 ) + gār ‘piercer ’. The n was lost by wrong division of a nauger; compare with adder 1 and apron . usage: See usage at augur .

 

Auger effect

Auger effect |ˈəʊʒeɪ | ▶noun Physics an effect whereby an atom which has been ionized by removal of an electron from an inner shell loses energy by emitting an electron from an outer shell. ORIGIN 1930s: named after Pierre V. Auger (1899 –1993 ), French physicist.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

auger

au ger /ɔ́ːɡə r /名詞 C (らせん状の )木工用きり ; (地面に穴をあける )掘削ドリル .