augering
Spiral tool digging
Augering is the present participle of auger, meaning to bore or drill using an auger—a tool with a helical shaft designed to cut through wood, ice, or earth.
They spent the morning augering holes for fence posts.
The word also appears figuratively for any spiral or drilling motion: The plane went augering into the ground.
Drilled underground passage
- boringFailing to engage interest
- bitSmall amount or portion
- shaftNarrow vertical passage
- excavationAct of unearthing
penetration · rotary · core · extraction · subsurface · soil · earth · geology
Small amount or portion
- braceDevice providing structural stability
- gimletSmall hand drill
- spiralCurve winding around center
- fluteTube blown sideways
shank · chuck · reamer · countersink · bore · carbide · pilot · extractor
Sign of future calamity
- omenProphetic indicator
- auspiceProphetic token or portent
- presageIndicate beforehand
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
soothsaying · prophecy · oracle · foretelling · prognosticating · prognosis · foresight · premonition
Estimating future conditions
- foretellingAnnouncing future events
- projectingExtending outward from surroundings
- extrapolatingInferring beyond known data
- anticipatingExpecting something to happen
signaling · indicating · foreshadowing · heralding · boding · promising · threatening · suggesting
borehole
Drilled underground passage
excavation · penetration · rotary · core · extraction · subsurface · soil · earth · geology · groundwork
bit
Small amount or portion
flute · shank · chuck · reamer · countersink · bore · carbide · pilot · extractor · blade
portent
Sign of future calamity
harbinger · soothsaying · prophecy · oracle · foretelling · prognosticating · prognosis · foresight · premonition · sign
forecasting
Estimating future conditions
- foretellingAnnouncing future events
- projectingExtending outward from surroundings
- extrapolatingInferring beyond known data
anticipating · signaling · indicating · foreshadowing · heralding · boding · promising · threatening · suggesting · pointing
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
- plumbingpipes, valves, fittings, faucets, drains
- drain cleaningdrain cleaning, snaking, plunging, root cutting
- piercingpierce, piercing, puncture, puncturing, stab
- earthworkdigging, excavation, excavating, trenching, shoveling
inaugurate, auger, inauguration, inaugural, augers, inaugurator, inaugurations, auguring, inaugurals