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Drill   /drɪl/   Listen
noun
Drill  n.  
1.
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.
2.
(Mil.) 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.
3.
Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
4.
(Zool.) 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.
Bow drill, Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast.
Cotter drill, or Traverse drill, a machine tool for drilling slots.
Diamond drill. See under Diamond.
Drill jig. See under Jig.
Drill pin, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of the key.
Drill sergeant (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions.
Vertical drill, a drill press.


Drill  n.  
1.
A small trickling stream; a rill. (Obs.) "Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills."
2.
(Agr.)
(a)
An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
(b)
A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
(c)
A row of seed sown in a furrow. Note: Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow.
Drill barrow, a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills.
Drill bow, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn.
Drill harrow, a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills.
Drill plow, or Drill plough, a sort plow for sowing grain in drills.


Drill  n.  (Zool.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).


Drill  n.  (Manuf.) Same as Drilling.
Imperial drill, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.


verb
Drill  v. t.  (past & past part. drilled; pres. part. drilling)  
1.
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.
2.
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. "He (Frederic the Great) drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers."


Drill  v. t.  
1.
To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. (R.)
2.
To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
3.
To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; with on. (Obs.) "See drilled him on to five-fifty."
4.
To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. (Obs.) " This accident hath drilled away the whole summer."


Drill  v. i.  To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.


Drill  v. i.  
1.
To trickle. (Obs. or R.)
2.
To sow in drills.





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"Drill" Quotes from Famous Books



... an awful contempt for me?" Kolya rapped out suddenly and drew himself up before Alyosha, as though he were on drill. "Be so kind as to tell me, without ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... than anything else was the necessity for "playing dead," as Tom expressed it. One of their exercises compelled them to lie on the ground absolutely motionless for an hour. Not even a muscle could twitch without bringing a reprimand from their keen-eyed instructor. Another part of the drill made them take half an hour merely to rise to their feet from a prostrate position, each move in the process being marked by the utmost caution. It was hard drill, but necessary, and in time the boys had gained a control over their muscles that would have ...
— Army Boys in the French Trenches • Homer Randall
... have fallen upon and kindled inflammable material. The rubbing requisite in shaping and polishing war clubs may have yielded a heat occasionally causing fire. In boring the holes necessary to make the needles found among primitive implements, a process resembling that of the fire-drill must have been employed. In short, it is not difficult to conceive of more than one way in which the fire-making art could have been gained by accident, though it may have been late in coming, since some, perhaps all, of the arts described were not attained until ...
— Man And His Ancestor - A Study In Evolution • Charles Morris
... inhabited by the upper ten of the dreaded "first class," a solemn conclave, headed by the lords of the school: Sitsky, Sablef, Osinin, Pryanishikoff, and Blashkov—this last actually a second cousin of Ivan. The decision resulting from the debate, held when the lower school was at drill, was spread abroad without delay by certain methods known only to the boys. By nightfall every cadet knew that young Gregoriev's status had been fixed; and henceforth none would dream of disputing it till the boy in question had passed his second year. By the third day ...
— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter
... of Borneo, Papuans or Maoris, Cheyennes or Tierra-del-Fuegians or the fabled Troglodytes; whether in the veritable youth of the world they counted up to five or only to two; whether they used a fire-drill, and if so what kind of drill; whether they had the notion of personal identity in so weak a shape as to practise the couvade; and a hundred other points, which we should now require any writer to settle, who should speak of the savage state as sovereign, one, and indivisible, ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley


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