auget

From French, diminutive of auge (“trough”), from Latin alveus (“hollow”), from alvus (“belly”).

• IPA^(key): /əʊˈʒeɪ/

auget (plural augets)

1. (mining) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.

• 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
• auget in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• Taegu, Tague

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auget m (plural augets)

1. a small feeding trough for cage-birds
2. the bucket of a waterwheel

• “auget”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

auget

1. third-person singular present active indicative of augeō

• IPA^(key): /²æʉ̯ɡə/

auget n

1. definite singular of auge