auger-like

Updated: June 23, 2025

Now the forgotten wrecks, like long-buried sins, rise and stand naked, showing every scar and stain. This is the work of the sea-puss the revolving maniac born of close-wed wind and tide; a beast so terrible that in a single night, with its auger-like snout, it bites huge inlets out of farm lands mouthfuls deep enough for ships to sail where but yesterday the corn grew.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Tides of Barnegat

I could hear them, sousing and plunging in the water, in every direction, then swimming and puffing across or up and down the stream, then scrambling up the banks, then the auger-like sound of their sharp teeth, at work on the small trees, then soon the falling of the trees, then the rustling and tugging of the creatures, in getting the fallen trees out of the water, and, finally, the surging and splashing with which they came swimming towards the ground-work of the dam, with the butt end of those trees in their mouths.

D. P. Thompson - Gaut Gurley