auger

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A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
1996, w:Janette Turner Hospital|Janette Turner Hospital, w:Oyster (novel)|Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 231

A snake or plumber's snake (qualifier).
A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts
A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.
To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.
To proceed in the manner of an auger.
(quote-book), (w)|year=2010|passage=It augered into the water and vanishedunder the surface only to float up again, its keel pointing skyward.
(quote-book)|year=2012|passage=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.
(quote-book)|year=2014|passage=It augers down again behind him to gyre like a mindless deadly battling top.
to dig in order to get the shape of a trough
to bend a piece of flat iron into the shape of a gutter, of an eavestrough
To increase, eke, augment
To enlarge, spread, expand
To lengthen
To exaggerate
To honor, enrich
puhekieltä To exalt, praise