noun. A large monkey (Mandrillus leucophaeus) of west-central African forests, having an olive brown body and a brightly colored face and resembling the mandrill.

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noun. An implement with cutting edges or a pointed end for boring holes in hard materials, usually by a rotating abrasion or repeated blows; a bit.

noun. The hand-operated or hand-powered holder for this implement.

noun. A loud, harsh noise made by or as if by a powered tool of this kind.

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noun. Disciplined, repetitious exercise as a means of teaching and perfecting a skill or procedure.

noun. A task or exercise for teaching a skill or procedure by repetition.

noun. The training of soldiers in marching and the manual of arms.

noun. Any of various marine gastropod mollusks, chiefly of the genus Urosalpinx, that bore holes into the shells of bivalve mollusks. U. cinera is destructive to oysters.

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intransitive verb. To make a hole in (a hard material) with a drill.

intransitive verb. To make (a hole) with or as if with a drill.

intransitive verb. To strike or hit sharply.

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intransitive verb. To instruct thoroughly by repetition in a skill or procedure.

intransitive verb. To infuse knowledge of or skill in by repetitious instruction: synonym: teach.

intransitive verb. To train (soldiers) in marching and the manual of arms.

intransitive verb. To make a hole with or as if with a drill.

intransitive verb. To perform a training exercise.

noun. Durable cotton or linen twill of varying weights, generally used for work clothes.

noun. A shallow trench or furrow in which seeds are planted.

noun. A row of planted seeds.

noun. A machine or implement for planting seeds in holes or furrows.

transitive verb. To sow (seeds) in rows.

transitive verb. To plant (a field) in drills.

To trill; trickle; flow gently.

To drain; draw off in drains or streams: as, water drilled through a boggy soil.

noun. A trade-name for drilling: often used in the plural.

noun. A sip, as of water.

noun. A rill.

noun. An apparatus used with a boring-tool which cuts on its end and is fed into the hole by a gimlet point, or with a tool such as is ordinarily turned by hand.

To pierce or make a hole in with a drill or a similar tool, or as if with a drill.

To make with a drill: as, to drill a hole.

3 To wear away or waste slowly.

To instruct and exercise in military tactics and the use of arms; hence, to train in anything with the practical thoroughness characteristic of military training.

On American railroads, to shift (cars or locomotives) about, or run them back and forth, at a terminus or station, in order to get them into the desired position.

6 To draw on; entice; decoy.

[⟨ drill, n., 4.] In agri.: To sow in rows, drills, or channels: as, to drill wheat.

To sow with seed in drills: as, the field was drilled, not sown broadcast.

To go through exercises in military tactics.

To sow seed in drills.

noun. In zoology, a baboon.

noun. Specifically, Mormon or Cynocephalus leucophæus, a baboon of western Africa, closely related to the mandrill, but smaller, with a black visage, and a stumpy erect tail scarcely two inches long.

noun. A tool for boring holes in metal, stone, or other hard substance; specifically, a steel cutting-tool fixed to a drill-stock, bow-lathe, or drilling-machine. See cuts under bow-drill, brace-drill, and cramp-drill.

noun. In mining, a borer: the more common term in the United States.

noun. In agriculture, a machine for planting seeds, as of grasses, wheat, oats, corn, etc., by dropping them in rows and covering them with earth.

noun. A row of seeds deposited in the earth.

noun. The trench or channel in which the seeds are deposited.

noun. A shell-fish which is destructive to oyster-beds by boring into the shells of young oysters.

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