What is "augering"

Usage examples of "augering".

Both blonds, compact, graceful in movement, going about their business with minimum fuss—and augering holes through anything that tried to box them in.

The debate about her future disposition, however, went on through an afternoon of sporadic work, intermittently adjusting the great tethering cable around the body of the asteroid and placing the augering tool in a new location.

It could be that the pilot is deliberately augering in, overriding the approach control backups.

She stood against the wagon’s door with her fists on her hips, blue eyes augering out from beneath her long black wig.

Indeed, given the sort of damage chronic High Drive failure did to the ship mounting the motors, ap Glynn'd be lucky if he managed a controlled crash rather than simply augering in.