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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drill \Drill\, verb (used without an object) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drill \Drill\, noun
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.
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.
3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
4. (Zo["o]l.) 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}.
{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.
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]:
Drill \Drill\, noun [Cf. {Mandrill}.] (Zo["o]l.) A large African baboon ({Cynocephalus leucoph[ae]us}).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drill \Drill\, noun [Usually in pl.] (Manuf.) Same as {Drilling}.
{Imperial drill}, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drill \Drill\, verb (used without an object)
1. To trickle. [Obs. or R.] --Sandys.
2. To sow in drills.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drill \Drill\, noun
1. A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.]
Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills. --Sandys.
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.
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.
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drill \Drill\, verb (used with an object) [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.
2. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
3. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. [Obs.]
See drilled him on to five-fifty. -- Addison.
4. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. [Obs.]
This accident hath drilled away the whole summer. -- Swift.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
drill
noun
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: {Mandrillus leucophaeus}]
3: systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect" [syn: {exercise}, {practice}, {practice session}, {recitation}]
4: (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms
verb
1: make a hole 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" [syn: {bore}]
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: {exercise}, {practice}, {practise}]
4: teach by repetition
5: undergo military training or do military exercises
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
257 Moby Thesaurus words for "drill": SOP, accustom, aculeus, acumination, application, apprentice, apprenticeship, athletics, auger, basic training, bed, bit, bite, bone, boning, bore, bore bit, borer, brace and bit, brainwork, break, break in, breaking, breast auger, breast drill, breather, breed, breeding, bring up, broach, broadcast, burr, burrow, calisthenics, chamfer bit, coach, common practice, con, condition, conditioning, conning, constitutional, contemplate, contemplation, corkscrew, countersink, cram, cramming, cross bit, cultivate, cultivation, cusp, daily dozen, deepen, delve, depress, develop, development, diamond drill, dibble, dig, dig out, dike, discipline, disseminate, dive, dredge, drill press, drilling, drive, elucubrate, empierce, engrossment, examine, excavate, exercise, exercising, extensive study, fetch up, fetching-up, fit, fix, forest, form, foster, fostering, furrow, gimlet, go over, gore, gouge, gouge out, grind, grinding, groom, grooming, groove, grub, gymnastic exercises, gymnastics, habituate, hand drill, headwork, hole, honeycomb, house-train, housebreak, housebreaking, impale, implant, improve, improvement, in-service training, indoctrinate, inseminate, inspection, instruct, isometrics, keyway drill, lance, lick into shape, lower, lucubrate, lucubration, manual training, matter of course, mental labor, military training, mine, mucro, neb, needle, nib, nurse, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, penetrate, perforate, perusal, peruse, physical education, physical jerks, pierce, pink, plant, plunge into, point, pore over, portable drill, posthole auger, pot, power drill, practice, preparation, prepare, prescribed form, prick, prickle, procedure, pump drill, punch, puncture, put in, put in tune, put to school, quarry, raise, raising, ratchet drill, read, reading, ready, readying, ream, ream out, reamer, rear, rearing, reforest, regard studiously, rehearsal, rehearse, repetition, reset, restudy, restudying, retimber, review, riddle, rotary drill, rule, run through, sap, scatter seed, school, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, seed, seed down, seminate, send to school, set, set form, setting-up exercises, shovel, sink, skewer, sloyd, sow, sow broadcast, spade, spear, spike, spit, stab, standard operating procedure, standing orders, star drill, stick, sting, strap drill, stretch, study, studying, subject, swot, swotting, take in hand, tap, teach, tip, train, training, transfix, transpierce, transplant, trench, trepan, trephine, trough, tunnel, tutor, twist bit, twist drill, upbringing, vet, vocational education, vocational training, wade through, wide reading, wimble, workout, yoga
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