Noun: auger
| Singular | auger |
| Plural | augers |
Sample Sentences
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Pete Burnett needs a fan belt for his auger. [1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 231:]
Nouns inflected like auger
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From a rebracketing of Middle English a nauger (seen as an + auger), from Old English nafugār (“nave drill”, literally “nave spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *nabugaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *nabōgaizaz. Cognate with Dutch avegaar. See: Middle English Nouns '
nauger', Dutch Nouns '
avegaar'.
Verbs referencing "auger"
German Nouns
Näber, Dutch Nouns
avegaar, Old Norse Nouns
nafarr.