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noun

Drilling n.

The act of piercing with a drill.

A training by repeated exercises.

Drilling n. The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.

Drilling n. (Manuf.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.

verb

Drill v. t. (past & past part. drilled; pres. part. drilling)

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.

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."

Drill v. t.

To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. (R.)

To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; with on. (Obs.) "See drilled him on to five-fifty."

To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. (Obs.) " This accident hath drilled away the whole summer."

Drill v. i. To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.

Drill v. i.

To trickle. (Obs. or R.)

To sow in drills.

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Etymology of 'Drilling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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