n. [ OE. augoure, nauger, AS. nafegār, fr. nafu, nafa, nave of a wheel + gār spear, and therefore meaning properly and originally a nave-bore. See Nave (of a wheel) and 2d Gore, n. ] 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Auger bit, a bit with a cutting edge or blade like that of an anger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a gauger. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } prep. [ OF. maugré, malgré, F. malgré. See Mal-, Malice, and Agree. ] In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A man must needs love maugre his heed. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

This mauger all the world will I keep safe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Pirogue. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel. [ 1913 Webster ]