To trill; trickle; flow gently.
To drain; draw off in drains or streams: as, water drilled through a boggy soil.
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In zoology, a baboon.
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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.
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A trade-name for drilling: often used in the plural.
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A sip, as of water.
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A rill.
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.
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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.
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In mining, a borer: the more common term in the United States.
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In agriculture, a machine for planting seeds, as of grasses, wheat, oats, corn, etc., by dropping them in rows and covering them with earth.
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A row of seeds deposited in the earth.
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The trench or channel in which the seeds are deposited.
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A shell-fish which is destructive to oyster-beds by boring into the shells of young oysters.
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The act of training soldiers in military tactics; hence, in general, the act of teaching by repeated exercises.