auget

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French, diminutive of auge (“trough”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin alveus (“hollow”), from alvus (“belly”).

Noun

auget (plural augets)

1. (mining) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “auget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Taegu, Tague

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French

Noun

auget m (plural augets)

1. A small feeding trough for cage-birds
2. The bucket of a waterwheel

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) auget

1. third-person singular present active indicative of augeō

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

auget n

1. singular definite of auge