auget
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Etymology edit
From French, diminutive of auge (“trough”), from Latin alveus (“hollow”), from alvus (“belly”).
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Noun edit
auget (plural augets)
- (mining) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.
References edit
- Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Auget”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
- “auget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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auget m (plural augets)
Further reading edit
- “auget”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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auget
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auget n