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▪ I. drilling, n.|ˈdrɪlɪŋ|
[corruption of Ger. drillich, MHG. drilich, drilch threefold, ad. L. trilīcem (trilix), f. L. tri- three + līcium thrum, thread.]
A coarse twilled linen or cotton fabric used for summer clothing, etc. Also attrib.
1640in Entick London (1766) II. 168 Gutting and spruce canvas drillinges. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. ii. xiv. 61 Making sail-cloth, sheetings, ravenducks and drillings. 1861P. B. Du Chaillu Equat. Afr. vi. 55 A blue drilling shirt.
▪ II. drilling, ppl. a.
see after drill v.2, v.3
▪ III. ˈdrilling, vbl. n.1
see after drill v.2
▪ IV. drilling, vbl. n.2|ˈdrɪlɪŋ|
[f. drill v.3]
1. Boring; perforation.
1698Ballard in Phil. Trans. XX. 420 Bare drilling might be able to give a Polarity to a Drill. 1894Labour Commission Gloss., Drilling, making holes in rails for the purpose of putting in bolts to fasten them to sleepers.
2. Training in military evolutions. Also transf.
1639Massinger Unnat. Combat iii. i, There being no war, nor hope of any, The only drilling is to eat devoutly. a1687Petty Pol. Arith. (1690) 17 Training and Drilling is a small part of Soldiery. 1880McCarthy Own Times IV. 127 Its oath of fidelity..its nightly drillings.
3. attrib. and Comb.:
a. in sense 1, as drilling-engine, drilling-machine, drilling-tool; drilling-bow = drill-bow (drill n.2 7 a); drilling-jig, -lathe (see quots.); drilling rig = rig n.6 3 a; drilling string: see string n. 15 b.
b. in sense 2, as drilling-day, drilling-exercise.
a.
1851Offic. Catal. Gt. Exhib. I. 246 Used by watch⁓makers..for the *drilling-bow.
1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xix. (ed. 3) 172 The dividing and the *drilling-engine are of this kind.
1874Knight Dict. Mech., *Drilling-jig, a portable drilling-machine which may be dogged to the work, or so handled as to be readily presented to it and worked by hand.
Ibid., *Drilling-lathe, a drilling-machine on horizontal ways or shears, thus resembling a lathe.
1865Gesner Pract. Treat. Coal, Petrol., etc (ed. 2) 34 *Drilling machines which can bore nine feet per hour.
1901J. G. McIntosh tr. Neuburger & Noalhat's Technol. Petroleum xxx. 396 (caption) Rotary oil-well *drilling rig for shallow depths. 1933Petroleum Handbk. (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) iii. 36 The drilling rig consists of a multiple speed hoisting unit called the ‘draw works’ and a rotary machine for turning the drill-pipe. 1976M. Machlin Pipeline i. 23 Red flames..lighting up the sky in the direction of the Alamo Oil Company drilling rig.
b.a1625Fletcher Love's Cure iii. ii, I..gave him..In the artillery yard three drilling daies. 1870Whitney Germ. Gram. Suppl. 3 Drilling exercises upon individual difficulties of German idiom. |