"Drill" is a word in ENGLISH
To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
Same as Drilling.
To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to
drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
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.
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.
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.
A row of seed sown in a furrow.
Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity
and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
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.
An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes
so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
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 practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's
self.
To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in
a row, like a trickling rill of water.
To sow in drills.
A small trickling stream; a rill.
To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
To trickle.
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill.
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Read the complete definitionA drilling or tamping rod.
Read the complete definitionsee under BURBUR. BARENA [f. Sp.], drill, auger, brace and bit. v. /MANG-:-EN/ to drill with an auger. BARENG; BARENG …
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Read the complete definitionbarína - (Sp. barrena) An auger, gimlet, drill, brace and bit; to bore—, drill—, holes with an auger, etc. Barináhi …
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Read the complete definitionA regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.
Read the complete definitionbiriking n automatic drill.
Read the complete definitionTo perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a …
Read the complete definitionAny instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a …
Read the complete definitionA piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.
Read the complete definitionA drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.
Read the complete definitionA black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, …
Read the complete definitionA california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The …
Read the complete definitionA small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a …
Read the complete definitionA kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a …
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