The auger bit is for the same purpose, and is used in the same manner.
I now bored holes two feet apart in the gunwale of the canoe, and having prepared long elastic wands, I spanned them in arches across the boat and lashed them to the auger holes.
Fortunately I had purchased at Khartoum an English screw auger 1 1/4 inch in diameter, and this tool I had brought with me, foreseeing some difficulties in boating arrangements.
The auger and piping shot out of the hole like stones driven by a catapult.
Then he gabbled at them a bit in their own language and the Aleuts took hold of the heavy bar by which the earth-auger was turned.
Meantime the churches resounded with the violent denunciations of a famous preacher, Friar Edmond Auger or Augier, "a great scourge for heresy," as his partisans styled him.
Gimlet bit and centre bit] "The auger bit is most commonly used by woodworkers.
An augeror gimlet could bore but one size of hole, while with a brace and set of bits almost any diameter can be secured.
On a modern auger bit, this spiral screw relieves the worker of a large part of the labour; all he has to do is to turn the brace and keep it straight, supposing of course that the bit is sharp.
A short form of this tool, called the dowel bit, has the advantage of bending less readily than the ordinary auger bit.
The auger bit] "What's the Yankee invention you were going to tell me about?
In working with thin wood, the auger bit is very apt to split it, especially brittle woods, like red gum.
For sharpening bits, a special auger bit file is made, and this may be used for sharpening the marking gauge point and such small work.
Long before the train came he lapsed into his natural blue sulkiness, remaining as quiet behind his auger hole as one ready for the grave.
They'd bore an auger hole or two in the box to give him air, and that was greater humanity than he deserved.
There was an auger hole on a level with Seth's eye, through which he could glower out for his last look on Ascalon, and the people who gathered around to deride him and triumph in his overthrow.
I tell you he scuttled the Proserpine, and the great auger he did it with I have seen and handled.
Then Wylie caught up with his left hand a wooden plug he had got ready, jerked the auger away, caught up a hammer, and swiftly inserted the plug.
The short auger is used first and the others afterwards as the depth of the boring increases.
Government agency, has probably put a soil auger into your very land or a plot close by.
Evaluating Potential Rooting Ability One of the most instructive things a water-wise gardener can do is to rent or borrow a hand-operated fence post auger and bore a 3-foot-deep hole.
In soil free of stones, using an auger is more instructive than using a conventional posthole digger or shoveling out a small pit, because where soil is loose, the hole deepens rapidly.
The finding of the auger and gimlet opened up wider possibilities.
He selected his uprights, the longest and strongest in his stock, chopped them to size, and to the end of each pegged stout flat cross-pieces, boring the holes with his auger and driving home the pegs with the back of his axe.
He bored in a little way, and then, in attempting to draw the auger out, to clear the hole of chips, the handle came off, leaving the auger itself fast in the hole.
Ernest was loaded with an axe and hammer, a pair of pincers, a large pair of scissors, and an auger showed itself half out of his pocket.
We placed a tree on two props, and Fritz and I managed the auger so well, that we had our tree pierced through in a very little time, working first at one end and then at the other.
In March, when the first signs of thaw appear, you bore only a little way with an auger into the juicy wood, when the sap comes bubbling down the small wooden spout driven into the opening, and is caught in the trough or kettle waiting below.
This was to receive the upper end of the vertical sharpened stick, the knot serving as a cap to hold the upright in position and in which it revolved, after the fashion of the common auger which is worked with one hand.
I shoved the leathern string through the auger hole above it, so that it hung outside, and never since then by night or day, in sunshine or storm, through winter or summer, has it been drawn inside.
Hilliard, with his hand on the outside of the barrel, stopped the work when he felt the point of the auger coming through, and he himself completed the hole from the outside with his bradawl.
They went out and bought a one-inch auger and a three-sixteenths bradawl, a thick footstool and a satchel.
Mr. Watts (the machinist) laid off a line for the propeller shaft and with a long auger bored a hole from the engine bed through to the stern-post, large enough to permit the shaft of the propeller to revolve in it easily.
It took at least five or six boys to go for sugar-water, and they always had to get a boy whose father had an auger to come along, so as to have something to bore the trees with.
Then some of them got out their straws, and began to suck the sap up from the hole through them, and to quarrel and push, till they agreed to take turn-about, and others got the auger and bunted for another blackened tree.
Odin now took from his pocket an auger such as one uses to bore holes.
But when Odin blew into the hole to see whether it did indeed go through into the cave, the dust made by the auger flew into his face.
Dig out the portions of wood between the auger holes and chisel off thin slices, back to the gage-lines and to the knife-lines, taking care all the time to keep the sides of the mortise perpendicular to the face.
The spur centers the bit in its motion, and since it is in the form of a pointed screw draws the augerinto the wood.
Sleepy had made sure of his safety by returning through the Auger Hole.
Word was passed from one to the other as they emerged from the Auger Hole that there was a wild-cat in the Mud Room.
Then came the "Auger Hole," which is a round opening, not more than twenty inches in diameter and about fifteen feet long, through a solid wall of rock.
The harmony of related parts--the balance of shaft and handle or the geometry of the twist--makes the auger a decorative object.
The auger had attained a perfection in "the accuracy of the twist, the various forms of the cutters, the quality of the steel, and fine finish of the twist and polish.
Consider the common auger whose "Office" Moxon declared "is to make great round holes" and whose importance was so clearly stressed at Philadelphia in 1876.
Note in particular the planes, axe, brace, and auger as compared to Moxon.
You grip your pistol and look through the left-hand hole, you see the woman holding back the curtains, you see Martinez draw out the augerfrom the right-hand hole and lay it down.
Somebody helped him or the chips would still be there, somebody held back those hangings while he worked the auger, and somebody carried the auger away.
Paul, but I was a carpenter for six years before I went on the force and I know more about auger holes than you do.
The spirals from the auger blade inside the holes show plainly that the boring was done from Number Six toward Number Seven.
You see the point of the augeras it comes through the second, now the wood breaks and a length of turning steel shoves toward you.
This was one thread to be followed, a thread that might lead poor Bobet through weary days and nights until, among all the hardware shops in Paris, he had found the particular one where that particular auger had been sold!
I can return the compliment by saying that it isn't every lady who could throw a clumsy thing like an auger from a moving cab over a wide roadway and a stone wall and land it in a river.
You've been waiting your moment, holding your breath on one side of the wall while the auger grinds through from the other.
You bought the auger for Martinez and told him where to bore the holes?
Take, for instance, so small a thing as the auger used at the Ansonia.
You see there are only board partitions between these rooms, the boards are about an inch thick, so a sharp auger would make the holes quickly.
Fitchett The Trick of an Indian Spy Arthur Quiller-Couch The Man in the "Auger Hole" Frank R.
But when the Hessians left, the American authorities began a vigorous search for Tories; and Parson Odell was obliged to conceal himself in good Mrs. Morris's "Auger Hole.
This was a fine house and contained the room which afterwards became celebrated under the name of the "Auger Hole.
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