Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet. · A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool). · A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts · A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.
To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger. · To proceed in the manner of an auger. · To daydream.
From a rebracketing of Middle English a nauger (seen as an + auger), from Old English nafugār (“nave drill”, literally “nave spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *nabugaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *nabōgaizaz. Cognate with Dutch avegaar.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionnaugerenm
- Inherited-form mentionnafugārang · nave drill
- Inherited-form mention*nabugaiʀgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*nabōgaizazgem-pro
- Cognate mentionavegaarnl
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