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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drill \Drill\, verb (used with an object) [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.
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.
He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. -- Macaulay.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drilling \Drill"ing\, noun
1. The act of piercing with a drill.
2. A training by repeated exercises.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drilling \Drill"ing\, noun The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drilling \Drill"ing\, noun [G. drillich, fr. L. trilix having three threads, fr. the of tres three + licium a thread of the warm. See {Three}, and cf. {Twill}.] (Manuf.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
drilling
noun
1: the act of drilling [syn: {boring}]
2: the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum [syn: {boring}, {oil production}]
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