In deep loam or soft clay a deep narrow hole can quickly be made using a post hole auger. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
The basic idea is to find the cleanouts, and run a snake (aka auger) into them. powered one with knives. From Wordnik.com. [BiggerPockets Forums] Reference
There was an auger in the settlement -- it was yours. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
One writer compares his auger to Moses 'rod, and Arthur. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
That hole was made by an auger, or a bit held in a brace. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island] Reference
In an auger-bit, both methods of cutting take place at once. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
The sand-laden water bored exactly like an auger, in fast-cutting whirls. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
Note in particular the planes, axe, brace, and auger as compared to Moxon. From Wordnik.com. [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference
The auger and piping shot out of the hole like stones driven by a catapult. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
The size of auger-bits is indicated by a figure on the tang in 16ths of an inch. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
The two Aleuts, with their driver, had been working only a few moments at the auger. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
Into the base of the log and alongside the heart a deep hole is bored with an auger. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference
This last was made of a split slab, and supported by four round legs set in auger-holes. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer] Reference
Sometimes, also, spouts of tin are used, being driven into the bark just beneath the auger-hole. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
1809: THE INTRODUCTION of the gimlet-pointed auger followed Ezra L'Hommedieu's patent of 1809. From Wordnik.com. [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference
Occasionally, it will twist its way along like a long, slender corkscrew, or auger, boring into space. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms] Reference
He could then greatly reduce the diameter, and bring it to 15¾ feet as soon as the ground auger was used. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885] Reference
Another method is to take a common half-inch or two-inch carpenter's auger and bore into the soil with it. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
George'd go places the town boys wouldn't go, though; up a mountain of seed that the auger was piling high. From Wordnik.com. [The Imbecile] Reference
H---- received a letter sealed in black, and with the impression on the wax of an auger piercing the globe. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
They'd bore an auger hole or two in the box to give him air, and that was greater humanity than he deserved. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
A half inch, inch, or inch and a half hole is bored with an auger, but if we should wish, in the same manner, to bore. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
1855: RUSSELL JENNINGS 'improved auger bits, first patented in 1855, received superior citation at the Philadelphia. From Wordnik.com. [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference
There may be cases where, in addition to the drain, it may be expedient to bore with an auger in the course of the drain. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
Centennial, Moxon would have recognized an auger, and, further, his lecture on its uses would have been singularly current. From Wordnik.com. [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference
'Is there any one here who will go to Tuonela, to the Deathland, for the auger of Tuoni, that I may mend my sledge with it?'. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
The better way is to arrange a lathe with a hollow headstock and a guide which will carry a pod-auger boring in from one end. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890] Reference
All two-stage blowers offer electric starting and have driven wheels, an auger that gathers snow, and an impeller to throw it. From Wordnik.com. [Q&A: Which type of snow blower should I buy?] Reference
Most models let you engage the drive-wheel and auger-control levers with one hand, leaving the other free to control the chute. From Wordnik.com. [Q&A: Which type of snow blower should I buy?] Reference
Make the holes for the posts with a post-hole auger, two feet deep; set in the posts, charred on one end, to make them durable. From Wordnik.com. [The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines] Reference
Then he gabbled at them a bit in their own language and the Aleuts took hold of the heavy bar by which the earth-auger was turned. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
When cleaning snow use the supplied snow-removal tool or a broom handle, and never put your hands into the chute or near the auger. From Wordnik.com. [Tip of the Day: How to safely use your snow blower] Reference
The harmony of related parts -- the balance of shaft and handle or the geometry of the twist -- makes the auger a decorative object. From Wordnik.com. [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference
Consider the common auger whose "Office" Moxon declared "is to make great round holes" and whose importance was so clearly stressed at. From Wordnik.com. [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference
The tornado, like a huge auger, bored into the roof and tore the shingles and rafters away and every window was hurled from its casing. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
Mr. Spink had added to the seating capacity of his cabin by taking some long slabs and with an auger drilling holes in their round sides. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
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