auger

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Shall I then be forced to accept that the auger is able to recognize the cells already containing an egg and that it thenceforth refrains from laying there?

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  1. noun Any of various hand tools, typically having a threaded shank and cross handle, used for boring holes in wood or ice.
  2. noun A drill bit.
  3. noun A machine having a rotating helical shaft for boring into the earth.

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  1. Middle English, from an auger, alteration of a nauger, from Old English nafogār, auger; see nobh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Initial n has been lost, as in adder, umpire, etc.; early modern English also augre, augor, etc., and, with orig. n, nauger, from Middle English nauger, naugor, earlier navegor, from Anglo-Saxon nafogār, nafegār (= Dutch avegaar, eveger, egger = Low German naviger, näviger = Old High German nabagēr, nabigēr, transposed nagibēr, Middle High German nabeger, negeber, negber, German näber, neber = Icelandic nafarr (for *nafgeirr?), Swedish nafvare (for *nafgare); cf. Finn. napakaira, from Teutonic), from nafu, nave, + gār, a borer, spear: see nave, gar, and gore.
 

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