Auger vs Bode - What's the difference?
auger | bode |
A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
* 1996 , , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 231
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 indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
To foreshow something; to augur.
* Dryden
An omen; a foreshadowing.
* Chaucer
(obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
A messenger; a herald.
A stop; a halting; delay.
(bide)
* Tennyson
As proper nouns the difference between auger and bode
is that auger is while bode is .auger
English
(wikipedia auger)Alternative forms
* augreNoun
(en noun)- Pete Burnett needs a fan belt for his auger .
Anagrams
* * English nouns which have interacted with their indefinite article ----bode
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebodeVerb
(bod)- Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Derived terms
* bodementNoun
(en noun)- The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- (Robertson)
Etymology 2
*Verb
(head)- There that night they bode .