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auger

Tool for boring holes. Originally, a carpenter's tool, with a cutting edge and a screw point, manipulated by means of a handle at right angles to the shank. In archaeology a large auger is used to collect sediment and soil samples below ground without hand excavation, or to determine the depth and type of archaeological deposits. The auger may be hand- or machine-powered.
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Upon each side of the Pequod's quarter deck, and pretty close to the mizen shrouds, there was an auger hole, bored about half an inch or so, into the plank.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Many of these holes are as round and as cleanly cut as if they had been made with an auger.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Mr Rackstraw started as if some strong hand had plunged an auger into him.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
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