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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. |
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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. |
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To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's
self. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity
and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar. |
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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. |
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To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to
drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. |
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To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in
a row, like a trickling rill of water. |
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To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. |
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To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. |
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To trickle. |
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To sow in drills. |
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A small trickling stream; a rill. |
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An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes
so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. |
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A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. |
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A row of seed sown in a furrow. |
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A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus). |
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Same as Drilling. |
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