Handheld augers can also be used for making holes for garden planting. Wood augers have a screw to pull them into the wood, as a gimlet has, and a cutting lip that slices out the bottom of the hole. The auger bit, meant to be used in a brace, also has cutting spurs to cut a clean circle deeper than where the lips scrape out the wood.
Browning Family Name. An English surname, Browning comes from the Old English term of âbruningâ and âbrunâ which refer to the color brown. The spelling variations for Browning include Brouning, Browninge, Brownygg, Brownyng, Brownigg and Bruning. In England the Browning family name began in Cumberland and is now all across England and most of Wales.
The Mac A Brehon clan of County Donegal have anglicized as Brown or Browne since about 1800. In Scottish Gaelic, the name Brown is translated Mac-a-Bhruithainn (pronounced mac-avroon) from the root word Bruithainn, which is roughly pronounced bro-an and is similar to the word for judge (just as in the Irish).