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auger

[aw-ger] / ˈɔ gər /
NOUN
drill
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The first stop on the conveyor belts takes the materials over a series of rolling coils called an auger screen that sift out the cardboard and push it to a separate conveyor belt.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

They pull out the auger and take a sample of the excavated dirt.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2024

A heavy drill machine, called an auger, which got damaged after hitting an obstacle on Friday, broke while being pulled out of the 47-meter pipe inserted to bring out the trapped workers.

From Reuters Nov. 25, 2023

An American-made auger drill was flown in from across the country to drill through the debris, after excavators failed to clear the thick mound of soil and rock.

From BBC Nov. 23, 2023

It looked like an enormous auger shell, or a unicorn’s horn upthrust from the earth, and was said to stand at over six hundred feet.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

If you have no luck, then call in the pros who have power drain augers.

From Seattle Times Nov. 27, 2023

Together with lower oil prices, falling market volatility and a generally weaker dollar, this augers well for Asian equity markets and risk appetite on Wednesday.

From Reuters Jun. 27, 2023

He discussed his accident with relatives while cracking jokes, and he felt at ease with grain augers, showing in one video how he retrofitted parts from two different augers to create one extra-long tool.

From New York Times Oct. 12, 2022

Do you have 800 people working on pellet grill augers?

From The Verge Jul. 4, 2022

He handed him different old rasps and augers and chisels and files and mallets he’d brought over from England.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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