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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

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

Explaining that working on the Himalayan terrain was complicated, he said that two auger drilling machines were currently being put to work.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2023

From his leather pouch Bolverkr produced the auger called Rati.

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

Do you have 800 people working on pellet grill augers?

From The Verge ● Jul. 4, 2022

Buyers are worried about availability of the augers - which cost up to $14,000 and are normally sold around harvest time - and are paying for them in advance, Stortenbecker 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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