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
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
Baugi struck again with the auger, but the snake was gone, and he flung the drill from him angrily and heard it clatter on the rocks below.
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
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
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
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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