[drɪl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a tool or machine with a rotating cutting tip or reciprocating hammer or chisel, used for making holes

- instruction or training in military exercises
(e.g: parade-ground drill)

- a predatory mollusc that bores into the shells of other molluscs in order to feed on the soft tissue


Phrases:
- this is not a drill

Origin:
early 17th century: from Middle Dutch drillen ‘bore, turn in a circle’

[drɪl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- produce (a hole) in something by or as if by boring with a drill
(e.g: drill holes through the tiles for the masonry pins)

- subject (someone) to military training exercises
(e.g: a sergeant was drilling new recruits)


Phrases:
- this is not a drill

Origin:
early 17th century: from Middle Dutch drillen ‘bore, turn in a circle’

[drɪl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a machine which makes small furrows, sows seed in them, and then covers the seed with earth


Phrases:

Origin:
early 18th century (as a noun in the sense ‘small furrow’): perhaps from drill

[drɪl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- sow (seed) with a drill
(e.g: crops drilled in autumn)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 18th century (as a noun in the sense ‘small furrow’): perhaps from drill

[drɪl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a dark brown baboon with a short tail and a naked blue or purple rump, found in the rainforests of West Africa


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 17th century: probably a local word. Compare with mandrill

[drɪl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a coarse twilled cotton or linen fabric
(e.g: sturdy clothes in drill, denim and linen)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 18th century: abbreviation of earlier drilling, from German Drillich, from Latin trilix ‘triple-twilled’, from tri- ‘three’ + licium ‘thread’