Usually means: Tool for boring holes easily.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. auger: Merriam-Webster
  2. Auger, auger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. auger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. auger: Collins English Dictionary
  5. auger: Vocabulary.com
  6. Auger, auger: Wordnik
  7. auger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. auger: Wiktionary
  9. auger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. auger: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. auger: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Auger, auger: Dictionary.com
  13. auger: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Auger (disambiguation), Auger (drill), Auger (surname), Auger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Auger: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. auger: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. auger: Rhymezone
  18. Auger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. auger: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. auger: FreeDictionary.org
  21. auger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. auger: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. auger: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. auger: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. auger: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. auger: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. auger: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. auger: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  4. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
noun:  A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool).
noun:  A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts
noun:  A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.
verb:  To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.
verb:  To proceed in the manner of an auger.
verb:  (Arkansas, Missouri, uncommon) To daydream.
noun:  A surname from French.

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