I am sure I can recommend them as first-class augers, for they sank the boats in time for all hands to sit down to breakfast at half-past nine o'clock.
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier
So securely were these pins fixed, that after many vain attempts to knock them out, they had all to be bored out with augers.
"Vanishing England"
P. H. Ditchfield
Then they drove augers against the walls; these were applied to the joints of the blocks, so as to detach the latter.
"Salammbo"
Gustave Flaubert