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a rotating power drill powered by an electric motor

undergo military training or do military exercises

teach by repetition

(military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms

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"

a rotating power drill powered by an electric motor

undergo military training or do military exercises

teach by repetition

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 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.

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.

Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.

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 flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

To trickle.

To sow in drills.

A small trickling stream; a rill.

An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.

A row of seed sown in a furrow.

A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).

Same as Drilling.

To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; - with on.

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 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.

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.

Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.

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 flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

To trickle.

To sow in drills.

A small trickling stream; a rill.

An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.

A row of seed sown in a furrow.

A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).

Same as Drilling.

To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; - with on.

A genus of the subfamily CERCOPITHECINAE, family CERCOPITHECIDAE, consisting of seven named species: P. ursinus (chacma baboon), P. cynocephalus (yellow baboon), P. papio (western or Guinea baboon), P. anubis (anubis or olive baboon), P. hamadryas (hamadryas or sacred baboon), P. sphinx (mandrill), and P. leucophaeus (drill). Some authors have recognized a separate genus for the drill and mandrill: Mandrillus. The Papio genus is geographically distributed throughout east and west Africa, Arabia, Egypt, and the Sudan.

To pierce with a boring tool; bore; instruct thoroughly; train; sow in lines or rows.

To engage in military exercises.

A tool for boring or making holes in a hard substance; a machine for sowing seeds in rows; military exercise; thorough instruction, especially by means of frequent repetition.

To pierce through with a revolving borer (this implies tremor, and connects DRILL with THRILL).

An instrument that bores.

To exercise, e.g. soldiers or pupils.

The exercising of soldiers.

A row or furrow to put seed into in sowing.

To sow in rows.

A tool for boring; military exercise; small furrows for seed.

To bore; exercise, as soldiers, or thoroughly; sow in drills.

To plant in drills.

A boring - tool for metal.

A machine for planting seeds in rows; a row so planted.

Military training.

A pointed instrument used for boring holes in metals or other hard substances.

The act of drilling or training soldiers.

An ape or baboon; a row of grain sowed by a drill-plough; a small stream now called a rill.

To pierce or bore with a drill; to draw on; to drain; to exhaust or waste slowly.

To teach and train raw soldiers to their duty by frequent exercise; to teach by repeated exercise or repetition of acts.

To sow grain in drills.

To muster for exercise.

To sow in drills; to flow gently.

A pointed instr. for boring holes; the act of training in military exercises.

To pierce or bore with a drill; to train to, as a soldier by military exercises; to educate by repeated acts.

To let corn dribble along a furrow or channel like a trickling rill of water.

In agriculture, a row of grain or seed sown or planted in a furrow; the trench or channel so sown.

n. A pointed steel instrument, used for boring holes, particularly in metals and other hard substances; a drill-press;—an implement, for making holes for sowing seed;—a light furrow of channel made to put soldiers in the military art ; instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business.

An instrument with which holes are bored; an ape, baboon.