Word Meanings - TERRIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An auger or borer.

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• AUGER
  nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. 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
• BORER
  1. One that bores; an instrument for boring. A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo. Any bivalve mollusk which bores into limestone and similar substances. One of the larvæ of many species
• SAUGER
  An American fresh-water food fish ; -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• GAUGER
  One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
• TABORER
  One who plays on the tabor. Shak.
• UNDERLABORER
  An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.
• YUCCA BORER
  A California boring weevil . A large mothlike butterfly of the family Megatimidæ, whose larva bores in yucca roots.
• GAUGER-SHIP
  The office of a gauger.
• LABORER
  One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
• HARBORER
  One who, or that which, harbors. Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion. Strype.
• MAUGER; MAUGRE
  In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding. A man must needs love maugre his heed. Chaucer. This mauger all the world will I keep safe. Shak.
• DAY-LABORER
  One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith.
• PERIAUGER
  See IRVING