drill

1. v. t. 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. Source: opted

2. v. t. 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. Source: opted

3. v. i. To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self. Source: opted

4. n. 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. Source: opted

5. n. 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. Source: opted

6. n. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar. Source: opted

7. n. 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. Source: opted

8. v. t. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. Source: opted

9. v. t. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. Source: opted

10. v. t. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. Source: opted

11. v. t. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. Source: opted

12. v. i. To trickle. Source: opted

13. v. i. To sow in drills. Source: opted

14. n. A small trickling stream; a rill. Source: opted

15. n. An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. Source: opted

16. n. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. Source: opted

17. n. A row of seed sown in a furrow. Source: opted

18. n. A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus). Source: opted

19. n. Same as Drilling. Source: opted

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