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DRILL, v.t. [G.] 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.She drilled him on to five and fifty. [Not elegant.]3. To draw on from step to step. [Not elegant.]4. To draw through; to drain; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.5. In a military sense, to teach and train raw soldiers to their duty, by frequent exercise; a common and appropriate use of the word.6. In husbandry, to sow grain in rows, drills or channels.DRILL, v.t. 1. To sow in drills.2. To flow gently.3. To muster, for exercise.DRILL, n. 1. A pointed instrument, used for boring holes, particularly in metals and other hard substances.2. An ape or baboon.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.
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DRILL, v.t. [G.] 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.She drilled him on to five and fifty. [Not elegant.]3. To draw on from step to step. [Not elegant.]4. To draw through; to drain; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.5. In a military sense, to teach and train raw soldiers to their duty, by frequent exercise; a common and appropriate use of the word.6. In husbandry, to sow grain in rows, drills or channels.DRILL, v.t. 1. To sow in drills.2. To flow gently.3. To muster, for exercise.DRILL, n. 1. A pointed instrument, used for boring holes, particularly in metals and other hard substances.2. An ape or baboon.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, n.- A pointed instrument, used for boring holes, particularly in metals and other hard substances. – Moxon.
- An ape or baboon. – Locke.
- The act of training soldiers to their duty.
- A small stream; now called a rill. – Sandys.
[Drill is formed on the root of rill, G. rille, a channel.]
- In husbandry, a row of grain, sowed by a drill-plow.
DRILL, v.i.- To sow in drills.
- To flow gently.
- To muster, for exercise. – Beaum.
DRILL, v.t. [Sax. thirlian; G. and D. drillen; Dan. driller; Sw. drilla; to turn, wind or twist; W. rhill, a row or drill; rhilliaw, to drill, to trench; truliaw, to drill, as a hole; troel, a whirl; troelli, to turn or whirl. The latter is evidently connected with roll. Class Rl, No. 4.]- 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.
- To draw on; to entice; to amuse and put off.
She drilled him on to five and fifty. [Not elegant.] – Addison.
- To draw on from step to step. [Not elegant.] – South.
- To draw through; to drain; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. – Thomson.
- In a military sense, to teach and train raw soldiers to their duty, by frequent exercise; a common and appropriate use of the word. Hence, to teach by repeated exercise or repetition of acts.
- In husbandry, to sow grain in rows, drills or channels.
| Drill
- 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 practice an
exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
- 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.
- To cause to flow in drills
or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters
drilled through a sandy stratum.
- To
trickle.
- A
small trickling stream; a rill.
- A large African baboon (Cynocephalus
leucophæus).
- Same as Drilling.
- 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.
- 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.
- To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along
a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
- To sow in drills.
- An
implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed
as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced
with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill
in Latin grammar.
- To entice; to allure from step; to decoy;
-- with on.
- 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.
- To cause to slip or waste away by
degrees.
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Drill DRILL, verb transitive [G.] 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. She drilled him on to five and fifty. [Not elegant.] 3. To draw on from step to step. [Not elegant.] 4. To draw through; to drain; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. 5. In a military sense, to teach and train raw soldiers to their duty, by frequent exercise; a common and appropriate use of the word. 6. In husbandry, to sow grain in rows, drills or channels. DRILL, verb transitive 1. To sow in drills. 2. To flow gently. 3. To muster, for exercise. DRILL, noun 1. A pointed instrument, used for boring holes, particularly in metals and other hard substances. 2. An ape or baboon. 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.
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