auger

a tool used for boring holes into wood. In //As I Lay Dying// this tool is accidentally drilled into Addie's dead face.



" And the next morning they found him in his shirt tail, laying asleep on the floor like a felled steer, and the top of the box bored clean full of holes and Cash's new auger broke off in the last one. When they taken the lid off they found that two of them had bored on into her face." (AILD 73)

"It was her wedding dress and it had a flare-out bottom, and they had laid her head to foot in it so the dress could spread out, and they had made her a veil out of a mosquito bar so the auger holes in her face wouldn't show." (AILD 88)