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Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��ɡ�(r)|-��ɡ�(r)

Noun
en-noun

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

Quotations
;carpenter's tool
1996, w:Janette Turner Hospital|Janette Turner Hospital, w:Oyster (novel)|Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 231
:Pete Burnett needs a fan belt for his auger.

Translations
trans-top|carpenter's tool
Finnish: kaira
French: tarière à trépan
Italian: succhièllo; menarola
trans-mid
Portuguese: trado; verrumão
Spanish: barrena; barreno; taladrador; taladro
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Category:English nouns which have interacted with their indefinite article

fr:auger
io:auger
id:auger
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