Crossword-Solution: DRILL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Drill | 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. |
| Drill | 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. |
| Drill | v. i. | To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self. |
| Drill | 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. |
| Drill | 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. |
| Drill | n. | Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar. |
| Drill | 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. |
| 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. |
| Drill | v. t. | To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. |
| Drill | v. t. | To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. |
| Drill | v. t. | To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. |
| Drill | v. i. | To trickle. |
| Drill | v. i. | To sow in drills. |
| Drill | n. | A small trickling stream; a rill. |
| Drill | n. | An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. |
| Drill | n. | A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. |
| Drill | n. | A row of seed sown in a furrow. |
| Drill | n. | A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus). |
| Drill | n. | Same as Drilling. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with DRILL (5)
The first and paradigmatic example was alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork (a "Muppet Show" reference); other classics include alt.french.captain.borg.borg.borg, alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die, comp.unix.internals.system.calls.brk.brk.brk, sci.physics.edward.teller.boom.boom.boom, and alt.sadistic.dentists.drill.drill.drill.
See the hole where the string went through? You know how the Indians drill them? Work the drill with their teeth.
His body memory recalled the time the principal had suspended him from high school for spreading liquid banana peel on the hall floors and then ringing the fire drill alarm.
These are the utility naval vessels that have transformed the navies of old, which burdened the peoples with taxes for their support, into the present day fleets of self-supporting ships that find ample time for target practice and gun drill while they bear freight and the mails from the continents to the far-scattered island of Pan-America.
But there were men in these mountains, like lice on mammoths' hides, fighting them stubbornly, now with hydraulic “monitors,” now with drill and dynamite, boring into the vitals of them, or tearing away great yellow gravelly scars in the flanks of them, sucking their blood, extracting gold.
Quotes with DRILL (3)
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.
All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.
drill one hole after another into [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through — I cannot imagine a higher goal for today’s writer.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 146 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).