| Drill (drill) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Drill |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Drilled (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n.
Drilling.] [D. drillen to bore, drill (soldiers)]
probably akin to AS. pyrlian, pyrelian, to pierce. See
Thrill.] |
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.
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.
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To practice an
exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
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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.
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.
Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced
with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill
in Latin grammar.
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.
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To cause to flow in drills
or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters
drilled through a sandy stratum.
To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along
a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
To entice; to allure from step; to decoy;
-- with on.
To cause to slip or waste away by
degrees.
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To
trickle.
To sow in drills.
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A
small trickling stream; a rill.
An
implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed
as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
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| Drill (drill) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Drill |
| [Cf. Mandrill.]
(Zoöl.) |
A large African baboon (Cynocephalus
leucophæus).
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