auger

auger is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. hand tool for boring holes

   Synonyms: gimlet, wimble

4. noun. a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes

Synonyms

gimlet, wimble

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in auger:

argue, gaure, rugae

Common word forms

augers, augerer

Words from these letters

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