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n. Any of various hand tools, typically having a threaded shank and cross handle, used for boring holes in wood or ice.

n. A drill bit.

n. A machine having a rotating helical shaft for boring into the earth.

n. A rotating helical shaft used to convey material, as in a snow blower.

v. To drill or bore using an auger.

n. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet.

n. A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool).

n. A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts

n. A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.

v. To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.

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. An instrument for boring holes larger than those bored by a bit or gimlet.

n. An instrument for boring the soil.

n. hand tool for boring holes

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

"The basic idea is to find the cleanouts, and run a snake (aka auger) into them. powered one with knives."

drill    snake    hand tool   

annular auger   

diviner   

augur    blogger    mauger   

pickax    awl    adz    gimlet    adze    crowbar    trowel    chisel    spike-nail    screw-driver