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Auger

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 700, OED Evaluation: N/A

A carpenter's tool for boring holes in wood, etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point, and a handle fixed at right angles to the top of the shank, by means of which the tool is worked round with both hands.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Mm-hm. What kind of tools would be on a farm to do the kinds of jobs a farmer needed to do? Speaker: Mm, wire-pinchers, saws, handsaws, bucksaws, they got, and then- now there's swede-saws, I think, and cross-cut saws, and um, what else? Augers for digging po-- post holes for fencing. And um wire-stretchers and um-
A carpenter's tool for boring holes in wood, etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point, and a handle fixed at right angles to the top of the shank, by means of which the tool is worked round with both hands.
Cleaning up, they put whatever they want- put a box on it, and they could clean up around the yard in the spring, any extra things were lying around. Or put in fencing material, and they'd go fencing. The auger for boring the post-holes, the s-- wire, a stretch of the wire itself. The hammers and everything-like-that.
A carpenter's tool for boring holes in wood, etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point, and a handle fixed at right angles to the top of the shank, by means of which the tool is worked round with both hands.
ExampleMeaning
And it was a half-a-dozen apartment type apartment building with some unusual architecture to it. It had a little uh cone-shaped section built out on one corner of it and it was a three level apartment building. It was kind-of fun. It had the old ah, ah auger electric power system, coal fire, hot water system and the- had a coal bin in- in the basement where ah they brought the fuel in and dumped it in the window and filled up this coal bin and- and then the heating had to be stoked and shoveled ...
A carpenter's tool for boring holes in wood, etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point, and a handle fixed at right angles to the top of the shank, by means of which the tool is worked round with both hands.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So ice-fishing, that means you? Speaker: Make a hole in the ice. Interviewer: How would you do that? Speaker: With an auger. It's- it's a- it's a big thing that like this and it- you make it go around and it- it makes a hole in the ice.
A carpenter's tool for boring holes in wood, etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point, and a handle fixed at right angles to the top of the shank, by means of which the tool is worked round with both hands.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Yeah you see, especially with ambulance, you see some- some injuries of what other people are doing and that makes you think twice about some of the things you do. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Auger- Auger injuries are pretty- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Pretty darn good- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Degloving where it rips the skin right off and it wraps around an auger. That's-- Interviewer: A what? Speaker: Pretty much enough to keep you sober to not do something stupid- Interviewer: What's an auger? Interviewer: It's where they use like (inc) from the- the (inc). Interviewer: Oh no- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: And it like spins and- Speaker: So it wraps around there.
A carpenter's tool for boring holes in wood, etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point, and a handle fixed at right angles to the top of the shank, by means of which the tool is worked round with both hands.
So usually it's easy at the time because you adrelenine is rushing and you're there helping the person, but it really sets in afterwards, like "Wow, geez, I- you know, I use an auger like that everyday on the farm. Geez, that could have been me." Or I think about times where "Oh geez, I've went underneath a ladder like that" or driven that stretch of highway or mooses jumped out on me before.
A carpenter's tool for boring holes in wood, etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point, and a handle fixed at right angles to the top of the shank, by means of which the tool is worked round with both hands.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And ah we had an auger there for drilling- well, they used to build fences. You see these- these fences with the pickets up them? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Well they drilled the holes in them. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And we had a big machine there to drill them.
A carpenter's tool for boring holes in wood, etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point, and a handle fixed at right angles to the top of the shank, by means of which the tool is worked round with both hands.