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Meaning of drill
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
- 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.
Crossword clue for drill
- Bore
- Bore a hole in
- Bore hole
- Boring device
- Boring tool
- Dentist’s tool
- Hole-making machine
- It has a boring bit
- Machine tool
- Marching practice
- Military exercise
- Parade-ground exercise
- Pierce
- Practice session that’s boring?
- Something Boring
- Square-bashing
- Tool for making holes
- Training in military exercises
- What’s practised on parade ground can be boring
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