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Drill [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A pointed instrument, used for boring holes, particularly in metals and other hard substances.

3. The act of training soldiers to their duty.

4. A small stream; now called a rill. [Drill is formed on the root of rill, G., a channel.]

5. In husbandry, a row of grain, sowed by a drill-plow.

Drill [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To pierce with a drill; to perforate by turning a sharp pointed instrument of a particular form; to bore and make a hole by turning an instrument. We say, to drill a hole through a piece of metal, or to drill a cannon.

2. To draw on; to entice; to amuse and put off.

3. She drilled him on to five and fifty. [Not elegant.]

4. To draw on from step to step. [Not elegant.]

5. To draw through; to drain; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

6. In a military sense, to teach and train raw soldiers to their duty, by frequent exercise; a common and appropriate use of the word.

7. In husbandry, to sow grain in rows, drills or channels.

8. To sow in drills.

9. To flow gently.

10. To muster, for exercise.

Drill [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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. 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. 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.

5. A small trickling stream; a rill.

6. An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

7. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.

8. A row of seed sown in a furrow.

9. A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).

10. Same as Drilling.

Drill [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.

2. To trickle.

3. To sow in drills.

Drill [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

3. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

4. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

5. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.

6. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

Drill press Webster's Dictionary 1913

A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.

Drill-plow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plow for sowing grain in drills.

Drilled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bored or perforated with a drill; exercised; sown in rows.

Drilled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Driller [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, drills.

Drilling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Boring with a drill; training to military duty; sowing in drills.

Drilling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of piercing with a drill.

2. A training by repeated exercises.

3. The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.

4. A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.

Drilling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Drillmaster [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics.

Drillstock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A contrivance for holding and turning a drill.