auger

auger has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.
• n.. An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water.
• n.. hand tool for boring holes
• n.. a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes