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- verb Present participle of
auger .
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Examples
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On the balance, this has been a good week, (and it still can end up a good week assuming the drain augering and fixing goes smoothly tomorrow morning, but I'm trying to not think about it).
Since I'm up melted_snowball 2008
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No wonder the gop is augering into the ground; the sound you hear is Dwight Eisenhower doing 4500 rpm in his grave frank
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I sense season 3 augering in before it even starts ...
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Since people lose consciousness, there are all kinds of terrible accidents, from drivers having wrecks to pilots augering in their 757s during landing.
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Regardless, the hijackers were most likely forced to abort their mission by “augering in,” to use the Chuck Yeager parlance, near Shanksville, PA.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2006
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Ohh, I have plenty of non-pleasant memories of augering fishing holes through reservoir ice in the Green State to the south.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003
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They're just augering deeper and deeper, and we're talking about something that has a tremendous underground infrastructure?
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Somewhere near the center, a pipe was augering its way down into the ground, anchoring the structure firmly.
Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001
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Maximum depths for hand augered wells range up to 122 meters (400 feet); however, normal hand augering, is best suited to maximum depths ranging from 15 to 25 meters (49 to 80 feet).
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If a large stone is encountered when augering, it will have to be knocked out of the way, or broken, or a different type of auger used to cut a way past.
Chapter 5 1984
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