Auger
['ɔːgə] or ['ɔgɚ]
解釋/意思:
(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.
錄入:玛格利特
解釋/意思:
n. a carpenter's tool used for boring holes in wood.—n. Au′ger-bit an auger that fits into a carpenter's brace (see Brace).
整理:帕斯夸里
例句/造句/用法:
- In 1809, L'Hommedieu, a Frenchman, invented an auger with two pods and cutting lips, a central screw and a twisted shank. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- True, the turning-lathe, the axe, the hammer, the chisel, the saw, the auger, the plane, the screw, and cutting and other wood-shaping instruments in simple forms existed in abundance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Many of these holes are as round and as cleanly cut as if they had been made with an auger. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Formerly augers and similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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