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- English Word Driftway Definition A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.
- English Word Driftway Definition Same as Drift, 11.
- English Word Driftweed Definition Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
- English Word Driftwind Definition A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.
- English Word Driftwood Definition Wood drifted or floated by water.
- English Word Driftwood Definition Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
- English Word Drifty Definition Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
- English Word Drill Definition 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.
- English Word Drill Definition 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.
- English Word Drill Definition To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
- 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.