auger

See also Auger, and augur

English

Wikipedia

An auger.

Alternative forms

• augre

Etymology

From Middle English nauger, from Old English nafogār (“nave drill”), from Proto-Germanic *nabōgaizaz. Cognate with Dutch avegaar.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːɡə(ɹ)
• Homophone: augur; see also AGA

Noun

auger (plural augers)

1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet.
   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 231

     Pete Burnett needs a fan belt for his auger.

2. A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool).
3. A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts
4. A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.

Translations

carpenter's tool

• Bulgarian: свредел (bg) (svredel), бургия (bg) (burgija)
• Finnish: kaira (fi)
• French: tarière (fr) f, tarière à trépan (fr) f
• German: Holzbohrer (de) m
• Italian: succhiello; menarola
• Polish: świder (pl)

• Portuguese: trado, verrumão
• Russian: бур (ru) (bur) m, бурав (ru) (buráv) m, сверло (ru) (sverló) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свр̏дло (sh) n

  Roman: svȑdlo (sh) n

• Spanish: barrena (es) f, barreno (es) m, taladrador (es) m, taladro (es) m

plumber's snake — see plumber's snake

hollow drill used to take core samples of soil

• Bulgarian: сонда (bg) (sonda) f

• German: Erdbohrer (de) m

Verb

auger (third-person singular simple present augers, present participle augering, simple past and past participle augered)

1. To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.

Anagrams

• argue
• rugae

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /oʒe/

Verb

auger

1. To dig in trough.
2. (Arts) to dig in drainpipe one of the surfaces of a piece of flat iron.

Conjugation

• This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written auge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /ʒ/ and not a “hard” /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

   Conjugation of auger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		auger			avoir augé
gerund		en augeant			en ayant augé
present participle		augeant
past participle		augé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	auge	auges	auge	augeons	augez	augent
	imperfect	augeais	augeais	augeait	augions	augiez	augeaient
	past historic1	augeai	augeas	augea	augeâmes	augeâtes	augèrent
	future	augerai	augeras	augera	augerons	augerez	augeront
	conditional	augerais	augerais	augerait	augerions	augeriez	augeraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	auge	auges	auge	augions	augiez	augent
	imperfect1	augeasse	augeasses	augeât	augeassions	augeassiez	augeassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	auge	—	augeons	augez	—
1literary tenses

Anagrams

• argue, argué
• urgea