Drill(n.) 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.
Drill(n.) 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.
Drill(n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
Drill(n.) 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.
Drill(n.) A small trickling stream; a rill.
Drill(n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
Drill(n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
Drill(n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow.
Drill(n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
Drill(n.) Same as Drilling.
Drill(v. i.) To trickle.
Drill(v. i.) To sow in drills.
Drill(v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
Drill(v. t.) 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.
Drill(v. t.) 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.
Drill(v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
Drill(v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
Drill(v. t.) To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
Drill(v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
Drilled(imp. & p. p.) of Drill
Drilling(n.) The act of piercing with a drill.
Drilling(n.) A training by repeated exercises.
Drilling(n.) The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.
Drilling(n.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.
Drilling(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drill
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