auger
aw ger
- n a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
- n hand tool for boring holes
- Cause of the disease is a trypanosome, protozoon which under the microscope resembles an auger.
- A rasp, a plane, a hammer, an auger, a gimlet, an adze, a cubit rule, a saw, and three chisels for paring, as well as a gouge--all were mine.
- Using dynamite, bulldozers, great augers and earth movers, working on the surface rather than below ground, strip miners now produce 37% of the nation's annual coal output.