auger
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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
“The second thing I learned when you lied to me,” hissed the snake to Baugi, who stood, astonished, holding the auger like a weapon, “was that you would betray me.”
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
Many drain cleaning jobs involve either snakes or long augers that slide down into the pipes and tear up or pull out debris.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
“We think that augers well for working people.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Do you have 800 people working on pellet grill augers?
From The Verge ● Jul. 4, 2022
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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