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Drilling

noun

The act of drilling. Synonym: boring.

The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum. Synonyms: boring, oil production.

Drill

verb

(past & past part. drilled; pres. part. drilling)

Make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool. Synonym: bore. "Drill a hole into the wall" , "Drill for oil" , "Carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall"

Train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons.

Learn by repetition. Synonyms: exercise, practice, practise. "Pianists practice scales"

Teach by repetition.

Undergo military training or do military exercises.

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"Drilling" Quotes from Famous Books

... forget the awful situation in which I was; I tried to think of other things; to imagine that I was drilling with the rest of my company, with Tom Rogers on one side of me, and old Humphrey Peters on the other. You may say, perhaps, that this wasn't exactly the way of carrying out my promise of taking care of Miss Minturn and the others. But ...

— The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories • Frank R. Stockton

... perhaps a hundred feet deeper, I would be very likely to get all the water I wanted. But, of course, they could not tell how deep they must go, for some wells were over a thousand feet deep. I shook my head at this. There seemed to be only one thing certain about this drilling business, and that was the expense. I ...

— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton

... clinging like flies to the precarious wall with on either hand a yawning abyss, their nerves failed them and they abandoned the enterprise. So it remained for an indomitable Scotchman, one George Anderson, finally to achieve the feat. Beginning where they had left off, drilling and climbing for a week, he had at last set foot upon that awful summit and gazed down into the depths where Mirror Lake reposed, ...

— Dutch Courage and Other Stories • Jack London

... secret, too," said Mrs. Talmage, leaning over toward the desk. "The boys have had their fathers meet with them every evening, advising and drilling them in ways and means to succeed, while my girls have had to do the best they can with Aunt Selina and me. This book will boost us far ahead of the Bobolinks and give the men who ...

— The Blue Birds' Winter Nest • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... natives, and in the second place to the Union. Thus, then, many of the professors who were natives of the seven States which had seceded resigned their appointments, and returned home to occupy themselves in drilling the militia and the levies, who were at once called ...

— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty

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