auger

auger
/aw"geuhr/, n.
1. Carpentry.
a. a bit, as for a brace.
b. a boring tool, similar to but larger than a gimlet, consisting of a bit rotated by a transverse handle.
2. See earth auger.
3. a device consisting of a shaft with a broad helical flange rotating within a cylindrical casing to force bulk materials from one end to the other.
4. snake (def. 3a).
[bef. 900; ME nauger (a nauger misdivided as an auger; cf. ADDER, APRON), OE nafogar nave-piercer (c. ON nafarr, OS nabuger, MD navegeer, OHG nabager), equiv. to nafa NAVE2 + gar spear; cf. GORE3, GARLIC]

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Tool (or bit) used with a carpenter's brace for drilling holes, usually in wood.

It looks like a corkscrew and produces extremely clean holes, almost regardless of how large the bit is. Expansive auger bits have adjustable blades with cutting edges and spurs that can be extended radially to cut large holes. Large augers are used to bore holes in soil for fence posts and telephone poles, or in ice for ice fishing. Horizontal augers as much as 8 ft (2.5 m) in diameter are used in coal mining.

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tool
 tool (or bit) used with a carpenter's brace (brace and bit) for drilling holes in wood. It looks like a corkscrew and has six parts: screw, spurs, cutting edges, twist, shank, and tang. The screw looks like a tapered wood screw and is short and small in diameter; it centres the bit and draws it into the work. At the working end of the twist there are two sharp points called spurs, which score a circle equal in diameter to the hole, and two radial cutting edges that cut shavings within the scored circle. The twist is helical and carries the shavings away from the cutters. The tang is square and tapered and fits in the chuck on the brace. Expansive auger bits have adjustable blades with cutting edges and spurs that can be extended radially to cut large holes. Metal-cutting twist drills can drill holes in wood, but they cannot produce as clean a hole as an auger bit or as large a hole as an expansive auger.

      Much larger augers are used to bore holes in soil for the emplacement of fence posts, telephone poles, and the like. Augers are sometimes used in surface coal mining operations to recover a portion of the seam exposed at the bottom of the last highwall (exposed but unexcavated face). The coal auger may be compared to an auger used to bore a hole in a piece of wood. As the auger rotates, it penetrates deeper into the wood, and the wood cuttings back out of the hole along the spiral. The same is true with the coal auger. As the coal discharges from the spiral, it is collected for transportation to the preparation plant or market. Additional auger lengths are added as the cutting head of the auger penetrates deeper into the coal. The length drilled depends on the pitch and thickness of the coal seam and the physical characteristics of the strata immediately above it. The penetration can be deeper for competent roof strata and more level seams. Webs of intact coal must be left between adjacent holes to support the overburden (overlying rock) and partly to separate individual holes. Coal is also left above and below the hole. Maintaining structural integrity results in rather low coal recovery, typically less than 35 percent of the area under augering.

William Andrew Hustrulid
 

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