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- Drill - v. t. - To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.
- Drill - v. t. - To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.
- Drill - v. i. - To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
- Drill - n. - An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.
- Drill - n. - The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.
- Drill - n. - Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
- Drill - n. - A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea.
- Drill - v. t. - To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
- Drill - v. t. - To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
- Drill - v. t. - To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
- Drill - v. t. - To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
- Drill - v. i. - To trickle.
- Drill - v. i. - To sow in drills.
- Drill - n. - A small trickling stream; a rill.
- Drill - n. - An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- Drill - n. - A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
- Drill - n. - A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- Drill - n. - A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
- Drill - n. - Same as Drilling.
- Drill press - - A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
- Drilled - imp. & p. p. - of Drill
- Driller - n. - One who, or that which, drills.
- Drilling - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Drill
- Drilling - n. - The act of piercing with a drill.
- Drilling - n. - A training by repeated exercises.
- Air drill - - A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill.
- Drill - v. t. - To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.
- Jar - n. - In deep well boring, a device resembling two long chain links, for connecting a percussion drill to the rod or rope which works it, so that the drill is driven down by impact and is jerked loose when jammed.
- Drill - n. - An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.
- Burr - n. - A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.
- Countersink - n. - A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes.
- Thirl - v. t. - To bore; to drill or thrill. See Thrill.
- Drill - n. - Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
- Battalion - n. - A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.
- Counterbore - n. - A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.
- Zouave - n. - Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War, 1861-65.
- Natica - n. - Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods belonging to Natica, Lunatia, Neverita, and other allied genera (family Naticidae.) They burrow beneath the sand, or mud, and drill other shells.
- Drilling - n. - The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.
- Drill press - - A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.