[syn: drill, exercise, practice, practise]
4. teach by repetition;
5. undergo military training or do military exercises;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drill \Drill\, v. i.
1. To trickle. [Obs. or R.] --Sandys.
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2. To sow in drills.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drill \Drill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drilled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drilling.] [D. drillen to bore, drill (soldiers); probably
akin to AS. pyrlian, pyrelian, to pierce. See Thrill.]
1. 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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2. 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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He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he
drilled his grenadiers. -- Macaulay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drill \Drill\, n.
1. A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.]
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Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their
drills. --Sandys.
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2. (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
sowing.
(c) A row of seed sown in a furrow.
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Note: Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a
compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill
husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow.
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Drill barrow, a wheeled implement for planting seed in
drills.
Drill bow, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly
turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn.
Drill harrow, a harrow used for stirring the ground between
rows, or drills.
Drill plow, or Drill plough, a sort plow for sowing grain
in drills.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drill \Drill\, v. i.
To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drill \Drill\, v. t. [Cf. Trill to trickle, Trickle,
Dribble, and W. rhillio to put in a row, drill.]
1. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to
drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy
stratum. [R.] --Thomson.
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2. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a
row, like a trickling rill of water.
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3. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
[Obs.]
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See drilled him on to five-fifty. -- Addison.
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4. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. [Obs.]
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This accident hath drilled away the whole summer. --
Swift.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drill \Drill\, n.
1. 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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2. (Mil.) 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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3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity
and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin
grammar.
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4. (Zool.) 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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Bow drill, Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast.
Cotter drill, or Traverse drill, a machine tool for
drilling slots.
Diamond drill. See under Diamond.
Drill jig. See under Jig.
Drill pin, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem
of the key.
Drill sergeant (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer whose
office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and
to train them to military exercises and evolutions.
Vertical drill, a drill press.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drill \Drill\, n. [Cf. Mandrill.] (Zool.)
A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucoph[ae]us).
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drill \Drill\, n. [Usually in pl.] (Manuf.)
Same as Drilling.
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Imperial drill, a linen fabric having two threads in the
warp and three in the filling.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
drill
n 1: a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making
holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by
repeated blows)
2: similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored
[syn: drill, Mandrillus leucophaeus]
3: systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes
perfect" [syn: exercise, practice, drill, practice
session, recitation]
4: (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in
ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms
v 1: make a hole, especially 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"; "carpenter bees are boring
holes into the wall" [syn: bore, drill]
2: train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
3: learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day";
"Pianists practice scales" [syn: drill, exercise,
practice, practise]
4: teach by repetition
5: undergo military training or do military exercises