Definitions
hand tool for boring holes
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“Pete Burnett needs a fan belt for his auger.”
“It augered into the water and vanishedunder the surface only to float up again, its keel pointing skyward.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Hand boring tool”5 letters
02“Hole-boring tool”5 letters
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