Drill

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drill \Drill\, v. t. [Cf. {Trill} to trickle, {Trickle},
     {Dribble}, and W. rhillio to put in a row, drill.]
     1. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to
        drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy
        stratum. [R.] --Thomson.
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     2. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a
        row, like a trickling rill of water.
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     3. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
        [Obs.]
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              See drilled him on to five-fifty.     -- Addison.
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     4. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. [Obs.]
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              This accident hath drilled away the whole summer. --
                                                    Swift.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drill \Drill\, v. i.
     To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drill \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.
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     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.
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     3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity
        and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin
        grammar.
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     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}.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drill \Drill\, v. t. [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}.]
     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.
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     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.
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              He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he
              drilled his grenadiers.               -- Macaulay.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drill \Drill\, v. i.
     1. To trickle. [Obs. or R.] --Sandys.
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     2. To sow in drills.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drill \Drill\, n.
     1. A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.]
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              Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their
              drills.                               --Sandys.
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     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.
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     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.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drill \Drill\, n. [Cf. {Mandrill}.] (Zool.)
     A large African baboon ({Cynocephalus leucoph[ae]us}).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drill \Drill\, n. [Usually in pl.] (Manuf.)
     Same as {Drilling}.
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     {Imperial drill}, a linen fabric having two threads in the
        warp and three in the filling.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  drill
       n 1: a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes
            in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by
            repeated blows)
       2: similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly
          colored [syn: {Mandrillus leucophaeus}]
       3: systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes
          perfect" [syn: {exercise}, {practice}, {practice session},
           {recitation}]
       4: (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in
          ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms
       v 1: make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill
            here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall";
            "drill for oil" [syn: {bore}]
       2: train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
       3: learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day";
          "Pianists practice scales" [syn: {exercise}, {practice}, {practise}]
       4: teach by repetition
       5: undergo military training or do military exercises

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  257 Moby Thesaurus words for "drill":
     SOP, accustom, aculeus, acumination, application, apprentice,
     apprenticeship, athletics, auger, basic training, bed, bit, bite,
     bone, boning, bore, bore bit, borer, brace and bit, brainwork,
     break, break in, breaking, breast auger, breast drill, breather,
     breed, breeding, bring up, broach, broadcast, burr, burrow,
     calisthenics, chamfer bit, coach, common practice, con, condition,
     conditioning, conning, constitutional, contemplate, contemplation,
     corkscrew, countersink, cram, cramming, cross bit, cultivate,
     cultivation, cusp, daily dozen, deepen, delve, depress, develop,
     development, diamond drill, dibble, dig, dig out, dike, discipline,
     disseminate, dive, dredge, drill press, drilling, drive,
     elucubrate, empierce, engrossment, examine, excavate, exercise,
     exercising, extensive study, fetch up, fetching-up, fit, fix,
     forest, form, foster, fostering, furrow, gimlet, go over, gore,
     gouge, gouge out, grind, grinding, groom, grooming, groove, grub,
     gymnastic exercises, gymnastics, habituate, hand drill, headwork,
     hole, honeycomb, house-train, housebreak, housebreaking, impale,
     implant, improve, improvement, in-service training, indoctrinate,
     inseminate, inspection, instruct, isometrics, keyway drill, lance,
     lick into shape, lower, lucubrate, lucubration, manual training,
     matter of course, mental labor, military training, mine, mucro,
     neb, needle, nib, nurse, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training,
     penetrate, perforate, perusal, peruse, physical education,
     physical jerks, pierce, pink, plant, plunge into, point, pore over,
     portable drill, posthole auger, pot, power drill, practice,
     preparation, prepare, prescribed form, prick, prickle, procedure,
     pump drill, punch, puncture, put in, put in tune, put to school,
     quarry, raise, raising, ratchet drill, read, reading, ready,
     readying, ream, ream out, reamer, rear, rearing, reforest,
     regard studiously, rehearsal, rehearse, repetition, reset, restudy,
     restudying, retimber, review, riddle, rotary drill, rule,
     run through, sap, scatter seed, school, scoop, scoop out, scrabble,
     scrape, scratch, seed, seed down, seminate, send to school, set,
     set form, setting-up exercises, shovel, sink, skewer, sloyd, sow,
     sow broadcast, spade, spear, spike, spit, stab,
     standard operating procedure, standing orders, star drill, stick,
     sting, strap drill, stretch, study, studying, subject, swot,
     swotting, take in hand, tap, teach, tip, train, training, transfix,
     transpierce, transplant, trench, trepan, trephine, trough, tunnel,
     tutor, twist bit, twist drill, upbringing, vet,
     vocational education, vocational training, wade through,
     wide reading, wimble, workout, yoga