auger

See also: Auger

English

An auger.

Alternative forms

• augre

Etymology

From a rebracketing of Middle English a nauger (seen as an + auger), from Old English nafugār (“nave drill”, literally “nave spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *nabugaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *nabōgaizaz. Cognate with Dutch avegaar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.ɡə(ɹ)/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɡə(ɹ)
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ɡɚ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.ɡɚ/

  • Audio (US, cot–caught merger):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Homophone: augur

Noun

auger (plural augers)

1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 231:

     Pete Burnett needs a fan belt for his auger.

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.

Derived terms

• augerer
• auger-fish
• augerlike
• auger mining
• closet auger
• hydrauger
• pod auger

 

Translations

carpenter's tool

• Bulgarian: свредел (bg) (svredel), бургия (bg) (burgija)
• Burmese: လွန် (my) (lwan), လွန်ပူ (my) (lwanpu)
• Catalan: barrina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 螺絲鑚／螺丝鑚, 螺旋鑽／螺旋钻 (zh)

• Czech: nebozez (cs) m
• Finnish: kaira (fi)
• French: tarière (fr) f, tarière à trépan f
• Galician: trade (gl) m, tarabela (gl) f
• Georgian: ბურღი (ka) (burɣi)
• German: Holzbohrer m
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρύπανον n (trúpanon)

• Hawaiian: wili nui
• Italian: succhiello; menarola
• Jingpho: lun bu
• Macedonian: сврдел m (svrdel), бургија f (burgija)
• Maori: wiri
• Middle English: nauger
• Mon: ခပူ
• Old English: nafugār m
• Ottoman Turkish: بورغو (burgu)
• Persian: برمه (fa) (barme)
• Plautdietsch: Boa n
• Polish: świder (pl)
• Portuguese: trado m, verrumão m
• Russian: бур (ru) m (bur), бура́в (ru) m (buráv), сверло́ (ru) n (sverló)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свр̏дло n

  Roman: svȑdlo (sh) n

• Slovak: nebožiec m
• Spanish: barrena (es) f, barreno (es) m, taladrador m, taladro (es) m, berbiquí m
• Swedish: navare (sv) c
• Tagalog: balibol, barena
• Turkish: burgu (tr)

plumber's snake — see plumber's snake

hollow drill used to take core samples of soil

• Bulgarian: сонда (bg) f (sonda)
• Finnish: maakaira, maaperäkaira
• German: Erdbohrer m
• Spanish: barrena (es) f

Verb

auger (third-person singular simple present augers, present participle augering, simple past and past participle augered)

1. To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.
2. To proceed in the manner of an auger.
   • 2010, Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, The Silent Sea‎^[1]:

     It augered into the water and vanishedunder the surface only to float up again, its keel pointing skyward.

   • 2012, Ronald Wright, A Scientific Romance‎^[2]:

     There was no way to measure progress inside the sphere, to know whether it spun or leapt or wobbled like a top as it augered through the years.

   • 2014, Steven R. Boyett, Mortality Bridge‎^[3]:

     It augers down again behind him to gyre like a mindless deadly battling top.

3. (Arkansas, Missouri, uncommon) To daydream.

Coordinate terms

• gimlet

Derived terms

• auger in

Translations

drill holes using an auger

• Bulgarian: сондирам (bg) (sondiram)
• Finnish: kairata (fi)
• Galician: tradar
• Italian: verrinare
• Spanish: taladrar (es), barrenar (es)

Usage notes

Not to be confused with augur.

Anagrams

• Argue, Gauer, Graue, argue, augre, rugae

French

Etymology

From auge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.ʒe/

• Audio:

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Verb

auger

1. to dig in order to get the shape of a trough
2. to bend a piece of flat iron into the shape of a gutter, of an eavestrough

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written auge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of auger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	auger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	augeant /o.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		augé /o.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	auge /oʒ/	auges /oʒ/	auge /oʒ/	augeons /o.ʒɔ̃/	augez /o.ʒe/	augent /oʒ/
	imperfect	augeais /o.ʒɛ/	augeais /o.ʒɛ/	augeait /o.ʒɛ/	augions /o.ʒjɔ̃/	augiez /o.ʒje/	augeaient /o.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	augeai /o.ʒe/	augeas /o.ʒa/	augea /o.ʒa/	augeâmes /o.ʒam/	augeâtes /o.ʒat/	augèrent /o.ʒɛʁ/
	future	augerai /oʒ.ʁe/	augeras /oʒ.ʁa/	augera /oʒ.ʁa/	augerons /oʒ.ʁɔ̃/	augerez /oʒ.ʁe/	augeront /oʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	augerais /oʒ.ʁɛ/	augerais /oʒ.ʁɛ/	augerait /oʒ.ʁɛ/	augerions /o.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	augeriez /o.ʒə.ʁje/	augeraient /oʒ.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	auge /oʒ/	auges /oʒ/	auge /oʒ/	augions /o.ʒjɔ̃/	augiez /o.ʒje/	augent /oʒ/
	imperfect2	augeasse /o.ʒas/	augeasses /o.ʒas/	augeât /o.ʒa/	augeassions /o.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	augeassiez /o.ʒa.sje/	augeassent /o.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	auge /oʒ/	—	augeons /o.ʒɔ̃/	augez /o.ʒe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Anagrams

• argue, argué
• urgea

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

auger

1. (nonstandard form) indefinite plural of auga
2. (nonstandard form) indefinite plural of auge