noun, a tool resembling a large corkscrew used for boring holes in wood, the ground, ice, etc. (COD)
“On the side of the machine you had an auger where your grain come out, eh.”
“Not the auger that you crank around, okay.”
“No, no, no, we done them all by hand.”
“I put in a half-a-dozen posts halfway down on our end of the line fence. And the same thing, there was that yellow sand that come up with the postal auger.”