Auger (drill) An auger is a drilling device, or drill bit, that usually includes a rotating helical screw blade called a flighting to act as a screw conveyor to remove the drilled out material. The rotation of the blade causes the material to move out of the hole being drilled.
Dumas is a Southern French topographic surname, with fused preposition and definite article du, for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country rather than in a village, from Occitan mas 'farmstead' (Late Latin mansum, mansus). Adolphe Dumas (1805-1861), French poet.
The Town of Dumas is served by the South Tippah School District. Locals. Donald Wildmon, the head of the American Family Association was born in Dumas on January 18, 1938. [citation needed] References