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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

Rescuers had managed to drill 34m downwards horizontally, with just 12m remaining, when the auger machine broke down on Friday.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2023

The drill machine, called an auger, was damaged as it was being pulled out of the nearly 47-meter pipe inserted to bring out the trapped workers, after hitting an obstacle on Friday.

From Reuters ● Nov. 25, 2023

Meanwhile Kalypso brought him an auger tool with which he drilled through all his planks, then drove stout pins to bolt them, fitted side by side.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

Do you have 800 people working on pellet grill augers?

From The Verge ● Jul. 4, 2022

Local farmers who shop at Stortenbecker’s store are pre-ordering grain bin augers, which transport crops into and out of storage, for the first time since he took over four years ago, he said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 29, 2021

Also see lots of feed trucks with unloading augers on the truck which feed the broilers.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2017

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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