Sentence examples for auger bit from inspiring English sources

The modern auger bit has a screw ahead of the cutting edges that pulls the auger into the workpiece.

It has been suggested that the function of the new tool was to make a small, or pilot, hole for the larger auger bit.

At one point it was also proudly called the Auger Bit Capital of the World, thanks to noisy factories in and around the town center.

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.

The operator raises and lowers the auger bit into the ground by turning a steering wheel.

The auger bit shown in the Figure is of the style traditionally used by carpenters; its six parts are shown in the Figure.

Expansive auger bits have adjustable blades with cutting edges and spurs that can be extended radially to cut large holes.

In the workshop, I asked him to hang up a mallet next to the others on the tool board, but he shuffled along the line of tools – the froe, the adze, the auger bits – and couldn't identify the mallets.

The more common use of the auger or bit was in the cross-grain direction to make holes for wooden pins (treenails, or trunnels) or bolts for connections.

He named his enterprise the Millville Manufacturing Company and converted the mill into an auger and bit factory.

An auger is a bit; to augur is to foretell.