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.
Metal Treatments: Browning and Bluing. Since the early days of gun-making, people were looking for different ways to better protect the iron and steel parts of their weapons. There are actually two forms of bluing, one is called cold bluing and the other is called hot bluing. We will study both processes here. We will also study the process of browning. So what is the purpose of these processes.