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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Drill

Drill, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. DRILLED; p. pr. & vb. n. DRILLING.] [D. & Ger. drillen, Dan. drille, Sw. drilla, A-S. thyrlian, from thyrl, thyrel, bored or pierced through, a hole, O. H. Ger. durhil, durihil, bored through, from durh, durah, durih, A-S. thurh, through.]

Sense 1. To pierce or bore with a drill; as, to drill a hole through a piece of metal.

Sense 2. To sow, as seeds, in rows, drills, or channels.

Sense 3. To draw through; to drain; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. [Rare.] Thomson.

Sense 4. To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct in the rudiments and methods of any art or branch of knowledge.

Sense 5. To draw on; to entice; to allure from step to step. [Obs.]

She drilled him on to five-and-fifty. Addison.

Sense 6. To exhaust or waste away by degrees; to occupy inactively.

This accident hath drilled away the whole summer.

Drill, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To sow in drills.

  1. To flow gently; to trickle. Heywood.
  2. To muster for exercise. Beau. & Fl.

Drill, n.

noun

n. 1. A pointed instrument, used for boring holes, particularly in metals and other hard substances; strictly, a boring tool that cuts with its beveled end by revolving; also, Drill. a drill-press. See DRILL-PRESS.

  1. (Agr.) (a.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. (b.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into in sowing.
  2. A small stream; a rill. [Obs.]

Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills. Sandys.

  1. 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 or other exercises.
  2. (Zoöl.) A kind of ape or baboon, said to be the Inuus leucophaeus of Kuhl. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.
A feather quill with a long shaft tapering to a pointed end.