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- English Word Drill Definition 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.
- English Word Drill Definition 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.
- English Word Drill Definition Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
- English Word Drill Definition 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.
- English Word Drill Definition To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
- English Word Drill Definition To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
- English Word Drill Definition To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
- English Word Drill Definition To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
- English Word Drill Definition To trickle.
- English Word Drill Definition To sow in drills.
- English Word Drill Definition A small trickling stream; a rill.
- English Word Drill Definition An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- English Word Drill Definition A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
- English Word Drill Definition A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- English Word Drill Definition A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
- English Word Drill Definition Same as Drilling.
- English Word Drill press Definition A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
- English Word Drilled Definition of Drill
- English Word Driller Definition One who, or that which, drills.
- English Word Drilling Definition of Drill
- English Word Drilling Definition The act of piercing with a drill.
- English Word Drilling Definition A training by repeated exercises.
- English Word Drilling Definition The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.
- English Word Drilling Definition A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.
- English Word Drillmaster Definition One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics.
- English Word Drillstock Definition A contrivance for holding and turning a drill.
- English Word Drily Definition See Dryly.
- English Word Drimys Definition A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.
- English Word Drink Definition To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.
- English Word Drink Definition To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.