drilln.¹

Brit.

/drɪl/, U.S.

/drɪl/

Forms: Also Middle English drylle, 1600s dril, drille.

Etymology: In sense 2, goes with drill v.²; sense 1 offers difficulties, and is not certainly the same word.

†1. A small draught (of liquid). Obsolete. rare.

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the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] > a drink or draught > small drink or sip

supeOE

sopec1000

drillc1440

sippeta1529

sowp1568

swope1617

sip1633

suck1633

swope1639

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 132/1 Drylle, or lytylle drafte of drynke, haustillus.

2. A (? trickling) rivulet or small stream; a rill.

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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > rivulet or runnel

rindleeOE

runningc1350

stripec1440

ruissel1477

channel1478

veina1500

rivel1542

rivereta1552

rivulet1577

rundle1577

runnel1577

runner1578

runnet1601

rival1602

riverling1605

run1605

riveling1615

creek1622

drill1641

vein riveret1652

riverlet1654

rigolet1771

runlet1801

1641 G. Sandys Paraphr. Song Solomon iv. ii Those living Springs..Whose Drils our plants with moisture feed.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 173 Meadow-Land..which had two or three little Drills of fresh Water in it.

1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins II. v. 38 Coming up to my Drill's Mouth, I fixed my Implements for a Draft there.

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 313 The drills in marshes should be examined.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

drilln.²

Brit.

/drɪl/, U.S.

/drɪl/

Forms: Also 1600s dril.

Etymology: In sense 1 probably immediately < Dutch dril, drille, in same sense (in Kilian 1599, and probably in Middle Dutch), < drillen : see drill v.³; in other senses apparently from the verb in English.

I. Mechanical and technical senses.

1. An instrument for drilling or boring; applied to contrivances of many kinds for boring holes in metal, stone, and other hard substances, from a pointed steel tool to an elaborate drilling machine.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill

drill1611

driller1870

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trappan, a Stone-cutters Drill, the toole wherewith he bores little holes in marble, &c.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 6 Drills are used for the making such holes as Punches will not conveniently serve for.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 322/1 The Drill is a shaft or long Pin of Iron with a Steel point.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 185 The drill is a revolving cutter..to form circular holes in iron or other material.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 129 s.v. The ordinary miner's drill is a bar of steel, with a chisel-shaped end.

2. A shellfish which is destructive to oyster beds by boring into the shells of young oysters; a borer.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Muricidae > member of

murrey1579

murex1589

dog whelk1823

dogwinkle1856

marine borer1874

oyster drill1877

drill1886

1886 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 22 8868 The little littorinas, the destructive ‘drill’ which works its way into the shell of the young oysters.

3. Manner or style of drilling, or in which a hole is drilled.

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1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh 22 He..said the drill of the [needle's] eye was superior to any other.

II. Military and derived senses.

4. The action or method of instructing in military evolutions; military exercise or training; with a and plural an exercise of this nature.

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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun]

discipline?a1439

training?1569

points of war1580

drilla1637

drilling1639

feats of war1650

square-bashing1943

a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xliv. 29 in Wks. (1640) III He that but saw thy curious Captaines drill, Would thinke no more of Vlushing, or the Brill.

1809 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) 24 June IV. 463 I propose to give the best drilled of the seven battalions coming to Portugal, in order to assist in your drills.

1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany ii. 15 A company of soldiers..at drill.

5. One who drills (others); a drill-master.

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society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > trainer

repeater1580

drill1814

driller1830

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv. 197 Her husband was my serjeant-major..and got on by being a good drill .

1894 D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 57 The various drills laboured at him like galley-slaves.

6. figurative.

a. Rigorous training or discipline; exact routine; strict methodical instruction.

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society > education > teaching > training > [noun] > drilling

exercisea1533

drill1875

drilling1880

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 51 Thy worn quill Too often hath needed Apollo's sharp drill.

1875 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Wks. (1906) III. 194 This wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating, and wrestling.

1967 Lebende Sprachen 12 136/2 Drill or language laboratory drill, a series of exercises devised for giving practice in teaching or testing a particular skill. It may be in the form of a two-, three-, or four-phase drill.

b. The agreed or recognized procedure, esp. on formal occasions. colloquial.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usual course, condition, etc. > the usual or ordinary way or procedure > as established or accepted

orderc1300

usation1556

in form1703

drill1940

programme1966

1940 D. Wheatley Faked Passports xxii. 265 Our Generals had so little imagination that the drill was always just the same and..the Germans got quite used to it.

1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 28 The drill, the correct way of doing a job is always referred to in this manner, or as the ‘right drill’.

1957 Listener 5 Dec. 925/2 He would come to dinner, swallow his soup, and then fall fast asleep. The servants knew the drill and kept his other courses warm.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. Pertaining to a drill or boring instrument

(a)

drill-holder n.

drill-hole n.

drill-room n.

drill-spindle n.

(b)

drill-like adj.

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1698 Mr. Ballard in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 420 Little..drill-like pieces of Steel.

drill-barrel n. a cylinder round the shank of a drill, on which the string of the drill-bow works.

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1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 6 The bigger your Drill-barrel is, the easier it runs about, but less swift... You must..keep your Drill-Bow straining your string pretty stiff.

drill-bow n. a bow used for working a drill.

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1869 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times (ed. 2) xiv. 513 The Dacotahs used a drill bow for the purpose of obtaining fire.

drill-chuck n. = (breastplate n. 3d),

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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Drill-chuck, a chuck in a lathe or drilling-machine for holding the shank of the drill.

drill-extractor n.

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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Drill-extractor, a tool or implement for extracting from deep borings a broken or a detached drill.

drill-gauge n.

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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Drill-gage, a tool for determining the angle of the basil or edge of a drill.

drill-jar n.

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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Drill-jar, a..stone or well-boring tool in which the tool-holder is lifted and dropped successively.

drill-pin n.

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1850 J. Chubb On Constr. Locks & Keys 15 The drill pins of the locks, and the pipes of the keys.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Drill-pin, a pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of a key.

drill pipe n. Oil Industry piping which carries and rotates the bit when a hole is being drilled and conveys the circulating mud.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > drilling equipment

surface casing1877

string1895

tubular goods1922

drill pipe1932

pup joint1937

drill string1948

turbodrill1948

tubular1975

1932 Amer. Speech 7 266 Drill pipe.., (rotary equipment) heavy steel pipe which composes the column connecting the bit with the rotating apparatus at the surface.

1949 Our Industry (Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.) (ed. 2) ii. 39 When a drilling bit becomes worn to such an extent that the drilling speed falls off, the whole string of drill pipe must be withdrawn in order to replace the worn bit by a new one.

1974 BP Shield Internat. Oct. 18/3 We might have to lift drill pipe to the drill floor.

1984 Listener 27 Sept. 9 This innovative device grapples with enormous lengths of drill pipe, connecting them together as drilling progresses.

drill-plate n.

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1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 7 Drill-plate or Breast-plate..to set the blunt end of the shank of the Drill in when you drill a hole.

drill-press n. (see quots.).

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1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Drill-press, a machine-tool embodying one or more drills for making holes in metal.

drill-stock n.

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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Drill-stock, the holdfast for a metal drill.

drill string n. (a) a string wound round the shank of a drill in order to rotate it; (b) Oil Industry a column of drill pipe together with the bit and associated parts; a drilling string (cf. string n. 15b).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill > types of bit > parts of bit

drill string1678

router bit1872

crown1873

router1874

society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > drilling equipment

surface casing1877

string1895

tubular goods1922

drill pipe1932

pup joint1937

drill string1948

turbodrill1948

tubular1975

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 6 You may sometimes require..several Drill-strings; the strongest strings for the largest Drills.

1948 Petroleum Handbk. (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) (ed. 3) v. 82 The great weight needed to push the bit downward into the formations is concentrated at the bottom of the drill string.

1975 Offshore Progress—Technol. & Costs (Shell Briefing Service) 6 As the rig rises and falls with the heaving surface of the sea,..constant weight must be maintained through the drillstring on the drilling bit.

1979 R. Piper Story of Oil vi. 23 When boring for oil, a separate engine, apart from the one that raises and lowers the drill string, is needed to turn the drill stem.

1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans iii. 83 (in figure) Acoustical sensor on drill string determines drill bit position.

c. Pertaining to or connected with military drill.

drill-day n.

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1831 W. O. Porter & J. Porter Sir Edward Seaward's Narr. II. 169 After these arrangements, drill-day came.

drill-ground n.

ΚΠ

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 120 In the Barrack-Yard or Drill-Ground.

drill-hall n.

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1878 Chambers's Encycl. III. 671/1 Drill-halls, in which drill can be carried on comfortably in any kind of weather, are now common.

1891 Scribner's Mag. 10 565 Entertainments are also given in the drill hall every Friday evening.

1933 L. A. G. Strong Sea Wall x. 120 Jerry held..a grand tournament of all his pupils, hiring for the purpose a local drill-hall.

drill-instructor n.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > instructor > in drill

trainer1598

drill-sergeant1803

drill-master1870

drill-instructor1876

bungee1915

springer1935

basher1942

square-basher1959

1876 A. Arnold in Contemp. Rev. June 28 The..drill-instructor has never before him the same body of men.

drill-master n.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > instructor > in drill

trainer1598

drill-sergeant1803

drill-master1870

drill-instructor1876

bungee1915

springer1935

basher1942

square-basher1959

1870 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David I. Ps. xviii. 34 The Holy Spirit is the great Drill-master of heavenly soldiers.

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drill-purpose n.

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drill-room n.

drill-ship n.

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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 264 Drill-ships, a recent establishment of vessels in which the volunteers composing the Royal Naval Reserve are drilled into practice.

1948 Jane's Fighting Ships 1947–8 50 Zetland was assigned to Solent Division R.N.V.R. as drillship.

C2.

drill-book n. a manual of instruction in military or other drill; also attributive and transferred.

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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > teaching aids > manual or book

posture book1631

gymnastics1646

tutor1665

drill-book1846

1846 United Services Mag. ii. 235 The French drill-book.

1868 All Year Round 11 July 108/1 He walks in a fine drill-book style.

1900 Daily News 15 May 3/3 The Queensland Mounted Infantry contingent seem to have engrafted sufficient drill-book into their common-sense methods.

1906 W. Wood Enemy in our Midst vii. 73 On a certain assumption which was that an enemy would work according to drill-book and rule-of-thumb.

1937 G. Fairbanks (title) Voice and articulation drillbook.

drill order n. (see order n.).

drill-sergeant n. a non-commissioned officer who trains soldiers in military evolutions.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > instructor > in drill

trainer1598

drill-sergeant1803

drill-master1870

drill-instructor1876

bungee1915

springer1935

basher1942

square-basher1959

1803 (title) The Complete Drill Serjeant.

1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 36 We were to pass an hour..facing to right and left, under the command of a drill-sergeant.

Draft additions 1993

spec. One used by a dentist to remove tooth material.

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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentists' drills

burr1859

burr-drill1859

drill1859

foot drill1860

tooth-mill1879

1859 J. Tomes Syst. Dental Surg. 344 Under the head of drills are included those instruments used in the preparation of cavities for the reception of plugs, which cut by a rotary motion.

1883 J. Nasmyth Autobiogr. 396 Four years ago I saw the same arrangement in action at a dentist's operating-room, when a drill was worked in the mouth of a patient to enable a decayed tooth to be stopped... It was merely a replica of my flexible drill of 1829.

1930 G. B. Shaw Applecart i. 40 Every dentist's drill in Shetland, every carpet sweeper in Margate, has its stream of driving power on tap from a switch in the wall.

1985 S. Pepper Dentist 30/1 Modern dental drills may run at speeds of 300,000 revolutions per minute.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

drilln.³

Brit.

/drɪl/, U.S.

/drɪl/, West African English

/dril/

Forms: Also 1600s dril.

Etymology: perhaps < a West African language.

A West African species of baboon, Mandrillus leucophœus. Also attributive, as drill baboon, drill monkey.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Mandrillus > Mandrillus leucophaeus (drill)

drill1644

wood baboon1781

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia sig. Aiv The dumb Ginnie Drills.

1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) xxiii. 439 This Relation of Tulpius shews this Creature to have been a kind of Ginney Drill..which this Michaelmas Terme, 1652. I saw neare Charing Crosse..; which Drill is since dead, and I beleeve dissected.

1654 J. Cleveland Char. Diurnall-maker 12 A Diurnall-maker is the antemark [antimask] of an Historian, he differs from him as a Drill from a man.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Dril..a large over-grown Ape, or Baboon, so called.

1726 J. Arbuthnot et al. It cannot rain but it Pours 10 His Ears..he can move..like a Drill, and turn them towards the Sonorous Object.

1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §156 The Drill..is rather smaller in stature than the Mandrill..The face is black; but the beard is orange-coloured.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 11/3 The drill monkey, the most costly and rare of its kind in the gardens.

1905 Daily Chron. 29 Apr. 7/1 The finest drill baboon ever seen in confinement is in the Bellevue Gardens.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

drilln.⁴

Etymology: Perhaps the same word as drill n.¹, in its sense of rill, runnel: compare the senses of German rille small furrow, drill, chamfer.

1. A small furrow made in the soil, in which seed is sown; a ridge having such a furrow on its top; also, the row of plants thus sown.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > seed-furrow or drill

seed furrow?1530

rigol1599

rilling1610

cornhole1655

rill1658

drill1727

seed seam1775

seam1799

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Carnation The seed may be sown..in drills drawn cross a bed by a Line.

1772 T. Simpson Compl. Vermin-killer 2 Field rats..will..run along the drills of peas.

1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 184 The drills were eight inches asunder.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 224/2 The seed sown by hand falls into the bottom of the drills.

1897 N.E.D. at Drill Mod. A drill of potatoes or turnips.

2. A machine for sowing seed in drills, now usually having contrivances for drawing furrows and for covering the seed when sown.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > apparatus for sowing > machine for sowing in drills

drill1733

drill-plough1733

seed drill1764

drill-barrow1807

drill-machine1808

placement drill1959

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxii. 147 The Drill is the Engine that plants our Corn and other Seeds in Rows; it makes the Channels, sows the Seed into them, and covers them.

a1740 J. Tull in C. W. Hoskins Occas. Ess. (1866) 102 I composed my machine. It was named a Drill, because when farmers used to sow their beans and pease into channels or furrows by hand, they called that action drilling.

1812 G. Crabbe Tales iii. 43 Corn sown by Drill, or thresh'd by a Machine.

1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge II. i. 4 The new-fashioned..horse-drill.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

drill-box n.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Drill, or Drill-Box.

1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Drill-box, the box in a drill-machine which contains the seed.

drill-culture n.

drill-husbandry n.

1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Useful Projects 59/2 Drill-Husbandry is..‘the practise of a garden brought into the field’.

drill-man n.

drill-system n.

C2.

drill-barrow n. a barrowlike contrivance for sowing in drills.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > apparatus for sowing > machine for sowing in drills

drill1733

drill-plough1733

seed drill1764

drill-barrow1807

drill-machine1808

placement drill1959

1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) I. 28 The drill-barrow is..well adapted for sowing some grains and small seeds.

drill-harrow n. (see quot.).

1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Drill-harrow, a small harrow..used between the drills or rows for the purpose of extirpating weeds.

drill-machine n. = sense 2.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > apparatus for sowing > machine for sowing in drills

drill1733

drill-plough1733

seed drill1764

drill-barrow1807

drill-machine1808

placement drill1959

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 120 Drill-machines, attached to the ploughs..or used with a horse or by hand.

drill-plough n. see drill-machine n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > apparatus for sowing > machine for sowing in drills

drill1733

drill-plough1733

seed drill1764

drill-barrow1807

drill-machine1808

placement drill1959

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxiii. 166 The Drill-Plow, which makes the Channels for a treble Row of Wheat.

1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 i. 63 A drill-plough, which drills the seed, and covers it in with the furrow turned by the plough.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

drilln.⁵

Brit.

/drɪl/, U.S.

/drɪl/

Forms: Abbreviated form of drilling n.³

Etymology: Compare German drell (Bremen Wörterbuch).

A coarse twilled cotton or linen fabric.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > coarse

humhum1620

Surat1643

negannepaut1725

drill1743

cottonade1803

manta1848

sponge cloth1862

cotton drill1899

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from choice of fibres > [noun] > cotton or linen > twilled

drilling1640

drill1743

marcella1795

1743 W. Ellis Suppl. to London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) 315 A Sort of Cloth called Drill.

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 99 Drills, and other Twilled Linens.

1876 Monthly Pkt. June 570 Boys, on admission, to be..supplied with..2 suits of brown drill.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Jan. 7/1 In cotton goods..America takes a high position in two descriptions, drills and sheetings.

1918 H. G. Wells Joan & Peter xiii. 664 Both the pink gingham and the white drill had been tried on.

1967 Listener 3 Aug. 156/2 Hugh Griffith in khaki drill and a pith helmet.

attributive.1757 in C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume (1960) 253/2 Dressed in..a white drill Frock.1882 B. Harte Flip, & Found at Blazing Star 7 His light 'drill' garments.1899 E. W. Hornung Amateur Cracksman 223 A girl in a white drill coat and skirt.1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days vi. 96 Dressed in khaki pagri-cloth shirt, drill shorts and a pigsticker topi.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† drillv.¹

Forms: Also Middle English dril.

Etymology: Appears first in Middle English: origin unknown.

Obsolete (exc. dialect).

1. transitive and absol. To delay, defer, put off.

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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (transitive)]

forslowc888

eldc897

forsita940

gele971

lengOE

drilla1300

delayc1300

onfrestc1300

tarryc1320

jornc1330

dretchc1380

defer1382

forbida1387

to put offa1387

to put (also set) (something) in (or on) delaya1393

dilate1399

fordrawa1400

to put overc1410

latch?c1422

adjournc1425

prolongc1425

proloynec1425

rejournc1425

to put in respite1428

sleuthc1430

respitea1450

prorogue1453

refer1466

sleep1470

supersede1482

respectc1487

postpone1496

overseta1500

respett1500

enjourna1513

relong1523

retract1524

tarde1524

track1524

to fode forth1525

tract1527

protract1528

further1529

to make stay of1530

surcease1530

prorogate1534

to fay upon longc1540

linger1543

retard?1543

slake1544

procrastine1548

reprieve1548

remit1550

suspense1556

leave1559

shiftc1562

suspend1566

procrastinate1569

dally1574

post1577

to hold off1580

drift1584

loiter1589

postpose1598

to take one's (own) timea1602

flag1602

slug1605

elong1610

belay1613

demur1613

tardya1616

to hang up1623

frist1637

disjourn1642

future1642

off1642

waive1653

superannuate1655

perendinate1656

stave1664

detard1675

remora1686

to put back1718

withhold1726

protract1737

to keep over1847

to hold over1853

laten1860

to lay over1885

hold1891

back-burner1975

a1300 Cursor Mundi 23715 Þe ded ai wen we for to dril.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16390 Selcuth vs thinc o þe, pilate wit drightin for to drill [Gött. wid dreching for to drill], We haf vs chosen nu baraban, him haf algat we will.

2. to drill away, on, out: to protract, lengthen out; to fritter away, spend aimlessly (time).

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the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)] > waste time

leese?c1225

losea1340

defer1382

wastea1400

slip1435

consumea1500

superexpend1513

slow?1522

sloth1523

to fode forth1525

slack1548

dree1584

sleuth1584

confound1598

spenda1604

to fret out1608

to spin out1608

misplace1609

spend1614

tavern1628

devast1632

to drill away, on, outa1656

dulla1682

to dally away1685

squander1693

to linger awaya1704

dangle1727

dawdle1768

slim1812

diddle1826

to run out the clock1957

a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 464 Purposely drilling out the time, hoping to encline the Senate to favour his designe.

1668 G. Etherege She wou'd if she Cou'd ii. i. 16 We must drill away a little Time here.

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 306 They drill'd things on, till they might [etc.].

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth V. 180 He drills on his Evil, then curses his Fate, And bewails those Misfortunes himself did create.

a1745 J. Swift (Webster, 1864) This accident hath drilled away the whole summer.

1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins II. i. 6 One Pretence or other..of drilling on the Time till the dark Weather is over.

3. To lead, allure, or entice (a person) on from one point to another (in time or action); and so = to put off (cf. 1).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)]

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tightc1000

drawc1175

tollc1220

till?c1225

ticec1275

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wina1340

tempt1340

misdrawa1382

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allurea1450

attract?a1475

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alliciate1568

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trepana1661

solicit1665

whistle1665

drill1669

inveigh1670

siren1690

allicit1724

wisea1810

come-hither1954

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > evade [verb (transitive)] > put off

pop1530

to put off1569

to fode forth (also occasionally forward, off, on, out)1591

to shift offc1592

foist1598

to fob off1600

fub1600

to shuffle off1604

doffa1616

jig1633

to trump upa1640

whiffle1654

to fool off1664

sham1682

drill1752

to set off1768

to put by1779

jilt1782

palm1822

stall1829

job1872

to give (a person) the go-around1925

1669 A. Marvell Let. 15 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 84 So speedily as they may not haue drilld you on beyond the time of prosecution.

a1688 Duke of Buckingham Poems (1775) 141 Nor is it wit that drills the statesman on To waste the sweets of life, so quickly gone.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 89. ¶1 She has bubbled him out of his Youth;..she has drilled him on to Five and Fifty, and..she will drop him in his old Age.

1752 T. Gray Let. 19 Dec. in Corr. (1971) I. 368 He drill'd him on with various trifling pretences.

4. To draw or entice (a person) in, into a place; also on, along, out of a thing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > entrap, ensnare [verb (transitive)] > into a place, action, etc.

betrayc1250

weyec1315

deceivea1375

to draw out1579

fond1628

drill1662

seduce1673

surprise1696

to rope into1859

forset1872

steer1889

1662 E. Hickeringill Wks. (1716) I. 296 Drilling in the rabble with their..buffooneries.

1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 72 [He] was pickt up by a pack of Rogues in the streets and drilled into a Tavern.

1681 E. Hickeringill Wks. (1716) I. 187 To drill Men out of their Estates.

1696 J. Aubrey Misc. (1721) 97 Having drill'd his Wife along 'till he came to a certain Close..he threw her by Force into the Water.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 114 They drill'd them by discourse so near, that our men lay'd hold on all three at once.

5. intransitive. To slip away, vanish by degrees. dialect.

ΚΠ

a1333 Shoreham Poems 86/6 Meche hys þe mede þat hym worþe, By so þat he na-drylle.]

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Drill..to slide away. Kent.

1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Drill, to waste away by degrees.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

† drillv.²

Etymology: Etymology of this, and the cognate drill n.¹, uncertain. The verb is identical in sense with trill v.¹, frequent from Chaucer onward, and may be an altered form of it. Compare also German trillen to flow whirling or rolling, cited by Grimm from a 17th cent. writer, and taken by him as a sense of drillen to turn.

Obsolete.

1. intransitive. To flow in a small stream or in drops; to trickle, percolate; to drip.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > drip or fall in drops [verb (intransitive)]

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dreepa1000

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tricklec1386

thrill1540

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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlix. 162 In summer they often caused cold water..to drill vpon them as they sate in their dining-chambers.

1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xv. 390 Swift watry drops drill from his eye.

1782 Monro's Anat. Human Bones (new ed.) 62 The liquor..drills down upon the membrane of the nose.

reflexive.1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 209 Water..gently drils it selfe from the high Rocks.

2. transferred and figurative. To be derived, spring, flow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate, derive, or arise [verb (intransitive)]

arisec950

syeOE

comeOE

riselOE

springc1175

buildc1340

derivec1386

sourdc1386

proceedc1390

becomea1400

to be descended (from, of)1399

bursta1400

to take roota1400

resolve?c1400

sourdre14..

springc1405

descenda1413

sprayc1425

well?a1475

depart1477

issue1481

provene1505

surmount1522

sprout1567

accrue?1576

source1599

dimane1610

move1615

drill1638

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emanate1756

originate1758

to hail from1841

deduce1866

inherita1890

stem1932

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 111 Chaldy, Arabick, and Siriack drilling from the Hebrew.

Derivatives

ˈdrilling n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [adjective]

dropping?a1400

distillingc1485

stillinga1542

distillantc1550

drivelling1570

stillant1610

dribbling1627

drilling1634

stillatitious1656

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] > action or process of flowing > small amount

trickling1629

drilling1634

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 214 Full of shadowing trees, and drilling Riuolets.

1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 226 The drilling down of the Water..from the..Hills.

1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 86 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) A constant drilling of a glairy Mucus.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

drillv.³

Brit.

/drɪl/, U.S.

/drɪl/

Forms: Also 1600s dril, dryll, 1800s Scottish dreel.

Etymology: Known only from 17th cent.; compare drill n.² All the senses are found in Dutch drillen to drill, bore; to turn round; to shake, brandish; to drill, form to arms; to run hither and thither; to go through the manual exercise, Middle Dutch drillen to bore, turn in a circle, brandish; compare Middle Low German drillen to roll, to turn, Middle High German and modern German drillen to turn, to round off, to bore, to drill soldiers. Middle High German gedrollen ‘rounded’, drall ‘(twisted) tight’, point to an old strong verb, of ablaut series *þrell- , þrall- , þrull- . The English verb and noun were probably < Dutch; they are not connected etymologically with thrill , thirl , Old English þyrelian , though sense 1 is identical in sense with it.

I. To pierce, bore, make a narrow hole.

a. transitive. To pierce or bore a hole, passage, etc. in (anything); to perforate with or as with a drill or similar tool. Also spec. to shoot with a gun (colloquial). (Said chiefly of personal agents.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate

through-shooteOE

borec1000

thirlc1000

through-boreOE

piercec1330

wimblec1440

entera1500

perforate1538

foraminate1599

terebrate1623

drilla1657

forate1657

pertund1657

perviate1657

drill1674

transforate1727

tirl1825

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > other processes

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rough-hew1530

rip1532

stick1573

list1635

frame1663

fur1679

beard1711

cord1762

butt1771

drill1785

joint1815

rend1825

broach1846

ross1853

flitch1875

bore1887

stress-grade1955

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with missile

shootc893

shoot1297

feather1415

to shoot (a person, thing) through1535

daga1572

pistol1598

lace1622

to shoot‥through and througha1648

pink1661

pop1762

plump1785

wing1802

drill1808

rifle1821

leg1829

hole1847

shot1855

blunderbuss1870

riddle1874

pip1900

slot1987

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > shoot (a person or thing)

shoot1617

to bird off1688

to knock downa1744

to pick off1745

pop1762

drill1808

plug1833

perforate1838

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stop1845

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pot-shoot1969

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V clviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 140 The Stone dropt Sand; And the drill'd Alpes, became a Posterne which From Time lockt vp, noe foot had ever trode.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xvi. 466 Twirling the hard piece between the palms of their hands, they drill the soft piece till it smoaks, and at last takes fire.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 26 Drill'd in holes, the solid oak is found.

1808 E. S. Barrett Miss-led General i. 11 It would be a terrible affair to us..if we should be drilled with a bullet.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. iv. 39 Being drilled was to be shot through the body.

1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew xl. 6 My lugs ye hae dreel'd.

1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 213 Rabbit-holes drill the bank everywhere.

1930 Amer. Mercury Dec. 455/2 Go drill the mutt. He's strictly stool.

1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xii. 223 I can drill a dime at fifty yards.

b. intransitive. To pierce through.

ΘΠ

through-shooteOE

borec1000

thirlc1000

through-boreOE

piercec1330

wimblec1440

entera1500

perforate1538

foraminate1599

terebrate1623

drilla1657

forate1657

pertund1657

perviate1657

drill1674

transforate1727

tirl1825

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 196 None of those rayes of other atoms..come riding or drilling through both.

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 61.

2. To make or bore (a hole, etc.) by drilling. Also transferred of shooting.

ΘΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > by boring, piercing, or perforating

piercec1392

bore?1523

drive?a1525

thirl1609

drill1669

perforate1777

stick1834

puncture1851

sieve1875

pin1897

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. 73 There must be a Hole drill'd.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §36 The holes..appear to have been drilled into the rock by Jumpers.

1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 47 Drill a communication, and put in a nipple.

1890 Nature 4 Sept. 446/1 On August 28, 1859, the first well, drilled in the United States with the object of obtaining petroleum, was successfully completed.

1912 E. C. Bentley Trent's Last Case vi. 136 Thirty thousand men..would have jumped at the chance of drilling a hole through the man.

II. To turn round, twirl.

†3. transitive. To turn round and round; to whirl, twirl; in quot. 1681 to churn. Obsolete or dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > twirl

thwerl1490

snoove1513

thirl1582

twirla1640

drill1681

trundlea1756

twizzle1788

1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 97 They skim off the Cream, and drill it in an earthen Vessel with a stick.

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Drill, to twirl, or whirl. Devon.

III. To train in military movements and exercise. [Found from 17th cent. also in Dutch, German, Danish (Not in Kilian 1599; in Hexham 1678). Probably from the sense ‘turn round’.]

a. transitive. To train or exercise in military evolutions and the use of arms. (‘An old cant word’, Johnson.)

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (transitive)]

train1531

discipline1590

drill1626

redrill1792

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 37 Drilling your men..to ranke, file, march, skirmish, and retire.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 197 The Foe appear'd, drawn up and drill'd.

1842 T. B. Macaulay Frederic the Great in Ess. (1887) 695 The business of life, according to him, was to drill and be drilled.

1842 T. B. Macaulay Frederic the Great in Ess. (1887) 709 He drilled his people as he drilled his grenadiers.

b. intransitive for reflexive and passive.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (intransitive)]

exercisea1616

drill1848

1848 W. E. Forster Diary 26 May in T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (1888) I. vii Large numbers of men are armed and drilling nightly.

1897 N.E.D. at Drill Mod. The regiment drills regularly every day.

5. transferred and figurative. To train or instruct as with military rigour and exactness. Const. into, in, to, and infinitive. (Also intransitive for reflexive)

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > training > train [verb (transitive)] > drill or rehearse

exercise1388

exercite1475

practise1551

rehearse1768

parrot1775

soldier1780

drill1798

1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir ii. sig. E I do hug thee, For drilling thy quick braines in this rich plot.

1797 R. Southey Botany Bay Eclogues in Poems 93 So I..was drill'd to repentance and reason.

1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. I. ix. 253 Where boys are to be drilled in a given time into scholars.

1842¹ [see sense 4a].

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxix. 254 We had drilled with knapsack and sledge, till we were almost martinets in our evolutions on the ice.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxix. 389 Bear-dogs..that had been drilled to relieve each other in the melée.

1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xii. 189 He had drilled her in all that she should do and say.

a. To order or regulate exactly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > order or regulate

regulate?a1425

order1509

diet1576

conform1602

drill1877

1877 R. D. Blackmore Erema lii To be a great lady..and regulate and drill all the doings of nature.

b. To impart by strict method (a subject of knowledge).

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > instilling ideas > instil ideas [verb (transitive)] > inculcate

inculk1528

whet1528

to beat (a thing) into one's head1533

ding1555

inculcate1559

to beat in1561

lesson1602

screw1602

inconculcate1610

drum1648

instil1660

indoctrinate1800

drill1863

pan1940

1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. i. 2 Drill Greek, and instil religious principles into them.

c. (See quot. 1894.)

ΚΠ

1894 Labour Commission Gloss. (at cited word) To drill a person is to refuse him employment for a certain period, say, a fortnight, as a punishment.

Categories »

d. U.S. Railways. To shunt (carriages, engines, etc.).

Derivatives

drilled adj.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V clviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 140 The Stone dropt Sand; And the drill'd Alpes, became a Posterne which From Time lockt vp, noe foot had ever trode.

1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Apr. 420 The drillers..were made liable to transportation..the drilled, to fine, and imprisonment.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar ix. 103 The superiority of the drilled Roman legions.

ˈdrilling adj.

ˈdrillingly adv. by way of drilling or boring.

1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 490 The moths drillingly devoured the manuscript.

Draft additions January 2011

intransitive. to drill down: (Computing) to navigate directly to data at a lower level of a hierarchically structured system; (gen.) to gain access to or acquire more detailed information about something.

ΚΠ

1987 PC Week 3 Feb. By selecting directories or folders, you're able to ‘drill down’ through the directories or folders to access the file you wish to transfer.

1992 Computer Weekly 16 July 18/6 Using hypertext navigation, the maintenance programmer can ‘drill down’ into complex areas of code to test or alter them.

1993 News at Six Summer 5/3 Our partners can look at their information from any angle and drill down to find details behind overall WIP totals.

2006 Philadelphia May 190/2 There's been no billion-dollar incentive for the pharmaceutical industry to drill down on the anti-aging efforts the way it does on age-related disease.

2009 Guardian 26 Nov. (Online Information Suppl.) 14 (advt.) The Research Landscape feature of STN AnaVist comes equipped with lots of tools enabling you to drill down to details of green fiber research.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

drillv.⁴

Etymology: < drill n.⁴

1. transitive. To sow (seed) in drills, as opposed to broadcast; to raise (crops) in drills.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] > sow seed in drills

strain1733

drilla1740

1788 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1891) XI. 223 As all my corn will be thus drilled, so..I mean to put in drills also potatoes, carrots (as far as my seed will go), and turnips.

1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 148/2 The crops which are now most generally drilled are potatoes, turnips, beans, peas, beet-root, cole-seed, and carrots.

2. To sow or plant (ground) in drills.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] > sow seed in drills > sow ground in drills

drill1785

1785 G. Washington Writings (1891) XII. 225 A piece of ground..drilled with corn and potatoes between.

1894 Times 19 Mar. 11/1 He drilled two acres of land with this barley.

Derivatives

drilled adj.

ΚΠ

1766 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. at Wheat An Acre of drilled Wheat.

1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. iv. 100 I do not know that a drilled acre is superior in produce, at first, to a broad-cast acre.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. xviii. 179 Like a drilled-in crop of which not a seed has failed.

drilling n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > sowing in drills

drilling1767

direct drilling1973

1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 117 The drilling method likewise promises great advantages.

1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 174 Drilling..now styled the ‘New Husbandry’, is in reality the primitive practice.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

n.¹c1440

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v.⁴a1740

单词	drill
释义	drilln.¹ Brit. /drɪl/, U.S. /drɪl/ Forms: Also Middle English drylle, 1600s dril, drille. Etymology: In sense 2, goes with drill v.²; sense 1 offers difficulties, and is not certainly the same word. †1. A small draught (of liquid). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] > a drink or draught > small drink or sip supeOE sopec1000 drillc1440 sippeta1529 sowp1568 swope1617 sip1633 suck1633 swope1639 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 132/1 Drylle, or lytylle drafte of drynke, haustillus. 2. A (? trickling) rivulet or small stream; a rill. ΘΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > rivulet or runnel rindleeOE runningc1350 stripec1440 ruissel1477 channel1478 veina1500 rivel1542 rivereta1552 rivulet1577 rundle1577 runnel1577 runner1578 runnet1601 rival1602 riverling1605 run1605 riveling1615 creek1622 drill1641 vein riveret1652 riverlet1654 rigolet1771 runlet1801 1641 G. Sandys Paraphr. Song Solomon iv. ii Those living Springs..Whose Drils our plants with moisture feed. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 173 Meadow-Land..which had two or three little Drills of fresh Water in it. 1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins II. v. 38 Coming up to my Drill's Mouth, I fixed my Implements for a Draft there. 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 313 The drills in marshes should be examined. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). drilln.² Brit. /drɪl/, U.S. /drɪl/ Forms: Also 1600s dril. Etymology: In sense 1 probably immediately < Dutch dril, drille, in same sense (in Kilian 1599, and probably in Middle Dutch), < drillen : see drill v.³; in other senses apparently from the verb in English. I. Mechanical and technical senses. 1. An instrument for drilling or boring; applied to contrivances of many kinds for boring holes in metal, stone, and other hard substances, from a pointed steel tool to an elaborate drilling machine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill drill1611 driller1870 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trappan, a Stone-cutters Drill, the toole wherewith he bores little holes in marble, &c. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 6 Drills are used for the making such holes as Punches will not conveniently serve for. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 322/1 The Drill is a shaft or long Pin of Iron with a Steel point. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 185 The drill is a revolving cutter..to form circular holes in iron or other material. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 129 s.v. The ordinary miner's drill is a bar of steel, with a chisel-shaped end. 2. A shellfish which is destructive to oyster beds by boring into the shells of young oysters; a borer. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Muricidae > member of murrey1579 murex1589 dog whelk1823 dogwinkle1856 marine borer1874 oyster drill1877 drill1886 1886 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 22 8868 The little littorinas, the destructive ‘drill’ which works its way into the shell of the young oysters. 3. Manner or style of drilling, or in which a hole is drilled. ΚΠ 1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh 22 He..said the drill of the [needle's] eye was superior to any other. II. Military and derived senses. 4. The action or method of instructing in military evolutions; military exercise or training; with a and plural an exercise of this nature. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] discipline?a1439 training?1569 points of war1580 drilla1637 drilling1639 feats of war1650 square-bashing1943 a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xliv. 29 in Wks. (1640) III He that but saw thy curious Captaines drill, Would thinke no more of Vlushing, or the Brill. 1809 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) 24 June IV. 463 I propose to give the best drilled of the seven battalions coming to Portugal, in order to assist in your drills. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany ii. 15 A company of soldiers..at drill. 5. One who drills (others); a drill-master. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > trainer repeater1580 drill1814 driller1830 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv. 197 Her husband was my serjeant-major..and got on by being a good drill . View more context for this quotation 1894 D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 57 The various drills laboured at him like galley-slaves. 6. figurative. a. Rigorous training or discipline; exact routine; strict methodical instruction. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > training > [noun] > drilling exercisea1533 drill1875 drilling1880 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 51 Thy worn quill Too often hath needed Apollo's sharp drill. 1875 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Wks. (1906) III. 194 This wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating, and wrestling. 1967 Lebende Sprachen 12 136/2 Drill or language laboratory drill, a series of exercises devised for giving practice in teaching or testing a particular skill. It may be in the form of a two-, three-, or four-phase drill. b. The agreed or recognized procedure, esp. on formal occasions. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usual course, condition, etc. > the usual or ordinary way or procedure > as established or accepted orderc1300 usation1556 in form1703 drill1940 programme1966 1940 D. Wheatley Faked Passports xxii. 265 Our Generals had so little imagination that the drill was always just the same and..the Germans got quite used to it. 1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 28 The drill, the correct way of doing a job is always referred to in this manner, or as the ‘right drill’. 1957 Listener 5 Dec. 925/2 He would come to dinner, swallow his soup, and then fall fast asleep. The servants knew the drill and kept his other courses warm. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. Pertaining to a drill or boring instrument (a) drill-holder n. drill-hole n. drill-room n. drill-spindle n. (b) drill-like adj. ΚΠ 1698 Mr. Ballard in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 420 Little..drill-like pieces of Steel. b. drill-barrel n. a cylinder round the shank of a drill, on which the string of the drill-bow works. ΚΠ 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 6 The bigger your Drill-barrel is, the easier it runs about, but less swift... You must..keep your Drill-Bow straining your string pretty stiff. drill-bow n. a bow used for working a drill. ΚΠ 1869 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times (ed. 2) xiv. 513 The Dacotahs used a drill bow for the purpose of obtaining fire. drill-chuck n. = (breastplate n. 3d), ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Drill-chuck, a chuck in a lathe or drilling-machine for holding the shank of the drill. drill-extractor n. ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Drill-extractor, a tool or implement for extracting from deep borings a broken or a detached drill. drill-gauge n. ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Drill-gage, a tool for determining the angle of the basil or edge of a drill. drill-jar n. ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Drill-jar, a..stone or well-boring tool in which the tool-holder is lifted and dropped successively. drill-pin n. ΚΠ 1850 J. Chubb On Constr. Locks & Keys 15 The drill pins of the locks, and the pipes of the keys. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Drill-pin, a pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of a key. drill pipe n. Oil Industry piping which carries and rotates the bit when a hole is being drilled and conveys the circulating mud. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > drilling equipment surface casing1877 string1895 tubular goods1922 drill pipe1932 pup joint1937 drill string1948 turbodrill1948 tubular1975 1932 Amer. Speech 7 266 Drill pipe.., (rotary equipment) heavy steel pipe which composes the column connecting the bit with the rotating apparatus at the surface. 1949 Our Industry (Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.) (ed. 2) ii. 39 When a drilling bit becomes worn to such an extent that the drilling speed falls off, the whole string of drill pipe must be withdrawn in order to replace the worn bit by a new one. 1974 BP Shield Internat. Oct. 18/3 We might have to lift drill pipe to the drill floor. 1984 Listener 27 Sept. 9 This innovative device grapples with enormous lengths of drill pipe, connecting them together as drilling progresses. drill-plate n. ΚΠ 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 7 Drill-plate or Breast-plate..to set the blunt end of the shank of the Drill in when you drill a hole. drill-press n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Drill-press, a machine-tool embodying one or more drills for making holes in metal. drill-stock n. ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Drill-stock, the holdfast for a metal drill. drill string n. (a) a string wound round the shank of a drill in order to rotate it; (b) Oil Industry a column of drill pipe together with the bit and associated parts; a drilling string (cf. string n. 15b). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill > types of bit > parts of bit drill string1678 router bit1872 crown1873 router1874 society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > drilling equipment surface casing1877 string1895 tubular goods1922 drill pipe1932 pup joint1937 drill string1948 turbodrill1948 tubular1975 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 6 You may sometimes require..several Drill-strings; the strongest strings for the largest Drills. 1948 Petroleum Handbk. (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) (ed. 3) v. 82 The great weight needed to push the bit downward into the formations is concentrated at the bottom of the drill string. 1975 Offshore Progress—Technol. & Costs (Shell Briefing Service) 6 As the rig rises and falls with the heaving surface of the sea,..constant weight must be maintained through the drillstring on the drilling bit. 1979 R. Piper Story of Oil vi. 23 When boring for oil, a separate engine, apart from the one that raises and lowers the drill string, is needed to turn the drill stem. 1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans iii. 83 (in figure) Acoustical sensor on drill string determines drill bit position. c. Pertaining to or connected with military drill. drill-day n. ΚΠ 1831 W. O. Porter & J. Porter Sir Edward Seaward's Narr. II. 169 After these arrangements, drill-day came. drill-ground n. ΚΠ 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 120 In the Barrack-Yard or Drill-Ground. drill-hall n. ΚΠ 1878 Chambers's Encycl. III. 671/1 Drill-halls, in which drill can be carried on comfortably in any kind of weather, are now common. 1891 Scribner's Mag. 10 565 Entertainments are also given in the drill hall every Friday evening. 1933 L. A. G. Strong Sea Wall x. 120 Jerry held..a grand tournament of all his pupils, hiring for the purpose a local drill-hall. drill-instructor n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > instructor > in drill trainer1598 drill-sergeant1803 drill-master1870 drill-instructor1876 bungee1915 springer1935 basher1942 square-basher1959 1876 A. Arnold in Contemp. Rev. June 28 The..drill-instructor has never before him the same body of men. drill-master n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > instructor > in drill trainer1598 drill-sergeant1803 drill-master1870 drill-instructor1876 bungee1915 springer1935 basher1942 square-basher1959 1870 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David I. Ps. xviii. 34 The Holy Spirit is the great Drill-master of heavenly soldiers. Categories » drill-purpose n. Categories » drill-room n. drill-ship n. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 264 Drill-ships, a recent establishment of vessels in which the volunteers composing the Royal Naval Reserve are drilled into practice. 1948 Jane's Fighting Ships 1947–8 50 Zetland was assigned to Solent Division R.N.V.R. as drillship. C2. drill-book n. a manual of instruction in military or other drill; also attributive and transferred. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > teaching aids > manual or book posture book1631 gymnastics1646 tutor1665 drill-book1846 1846 United Services Mag. ii. 235 The French drill-book. 1868 All Year Round 11 July 108/1 He walks in a fine drill-book style. 1900 Daily News 15 May 3/3 The Queensland Mounted Infantry contingent seem to have engrafted sufficient drill-book into their common-sense methods. 1906 W. Wood Enemy in our Midst vii. 73 On a certain assumption which was that an enemy would work according to drill-book and rule-of-thumb. 1937 G. Fairbanks (title) Voice and articulation drillbook. drill order n. (see order n.). drill-sergeant n. a non-commissioned officer who trains soldiers in military evolutions. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > instructor > in drill trainer1598 drill-sergeant1803 drill-master1870 drill-instructor1876 bungee1915 springer1935 basher1942 square-basher1959 1803 (title) The Complete Drill Serjeant. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 36 We were to pass an hour..facing to right and left, under the command of a drill-sergeant. Draft additions 1993 spec. One used by a dentist to remove tooth material. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentists' drills burr1859 burr-drill1859 drill1859 foot drill1860 tooth-mill1879 1859 J. Tomes Syst. Dental Surg. 344 Under the head of drills are included those instruments used in the preparation of cavities for the reception of plugs, which cut by a rotary motion. 1883 J. Nasmyth Autobiogr. 396 Four years ago I saw the same arrangement in action at a dentist's operating-room, when a drill was worked in the mouth of a patient to enable a decayed tooth to be stopped... It was merely a replica of my flexible drill of 1829. 1930 G. B. Shaw Applecart i. 40 Every dentist's drill in Shetland, every carpet sweeper in Margate, has its stream of driving power on tap from a switch in the wall. 1985 S. Pepper Dentist 30/1 Modern dental drills may run at speeds of 300,000 revolutions per minute. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). drilln.³ Brit. /drɪl/, U.S. /drɪl/, West African English /dril/ Forms: Also 1600s dril. Etymology: perhaps < a West African language. A West African species of baboon, Mandrillus leucophœus. Also attributive, as drill baboon, drill monkey. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Mandrillus > Mandrillus leucophaeus (drill) drill1644 wood baboon1781 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia sig. Aiv The dumb Ginnie Drills. 1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) xxiii. 439 This Relation of Tulpius shews this Creature to have been a kind of Ginney Drill..which this Michaelmas Terme, 1652. I saw neare Charing Crosse..; which Drill is since dead, and I beleeve dissected. 1654 J. Cleveland Char. Diurnall-maker 12 A Diurnall-maker is the antemark [antimask] of an Historian, he differs from him as a Drill from a man. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Dril..a large over-grown Ape, or Baboon, so called. 1726 J. Arbuthnot et al. It cannot rain but it Pours 10 His Ears..he can move..like a Drill, and turn them towards the Sonorous Object. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §156 The Drill..is rather smaller in stature than the Mandrill..The face is black; but the beard is orange-coloured. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 11/3 The drill monkey, the most costly and rare of its kind in the gardens. 1905 Daily Chron. 29 Apr. 7/1 The finest drill baboon ever seen in confinement is in the Bellevue Gardens. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). drilln.⁴ Etymology: Perhaps the same word as drill n.¹, in its sense of rill, runnel: compare the senses of German rille small furrow, drill, chamfer. 1. A small furrow made in the soil, in which seed is sown; a ridge having such a furrow on its top; also, the row of plants thus sown. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > seed-furrow or drill seed furrow?1530 rigol1599 rilling1610 cornhole1655 rill1658 drill1727 seed seam1775 seam1799 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Carnation The seed may be sown..in drills drawn cross a bed by a Line. 1772 T. Simpson Compl. Vermin-killer 2 Field rats..will..run along the drills of peas. 1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 184 The drills were eight inches asunder. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 224/2 The seed sown by hand falls into the bottom of the drills. 1897 N.E.D. at Drill Mod. A drill of potatoes or turnips. 2. A machine for sowing seed in drills, now usually having contrivances for drawing furrows and for covering the seed when sown. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > apparatus for sowing > machine for sowing in drills drill1733 drill-plough1733 seed drill1764 drill-barrow1807 drill-machine1808 placement drill1959 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxii. 147 The Drill is the Engine that plants our Corn and other Seeds in Rows; it makes the Channels, sows the Seed into them, and covers them. a1740 J. Tull in C. W. Hoskins Occas. Ess. (1866) 102 I composed my machine. It was named a Drill, because when farmers used to sow their beans and pease into channels or furrows by hand, they called that action drilling. 1812 G. Crabbe Tales iii. 43 Corn sown by Drill, or thresh'd by a Machine. 1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge II. i. 4 The new-fashioned..horse-drill. Compounds C1. General attributive. drill-box n. Π 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Drill, or Drill-Box. 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Drill-box, the box in a drill-machine which contains the seed. drill-culture n. drill-husbandry n. Π 1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Useful Projects 59/2 Drill-Husbandry is..‘the practise of a garden brought into the field’. drill-man n. drill-system n. C2. drill-barrow n. a barrowlike contrivance for sowing in drills. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > apparatus for sowing > machine for sowing in drills drill1733 drill-plough1733 seed drill1764 drill-barrow1807 drill-machine1808 placement drill1959 1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) I. 28 The drill-barrow is..well adapted for sowing some grains and small seeds. drill-harrow n. (see quot.). Π 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Drill-harrow, a small harrow..used between the drills or rows for the purpose of extirpating weeds. drill-machine n. = sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > apparatus for sowing > machine for sowing in drills drill1733 drill-plough1733 seed drill1764 drill-barrow1807 drill-machine1808 placement drill1959 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 120 Drill-machines, attached to the ploughs..or used with a horse or by hand. drill-plough n. see drill-machine n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > apparatus for sowing > machine for sowing in drills drill1733 drill-plough1733 seed drill1764 drill-barrow1807 drill-machine1808 placement drill1959 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxiii. 166 The Drill-Plow, which makes the Channels for a treble Row of Wheat. 1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 i. 63 A drill-plough, which drills the seed, and covers it in with the furrow turned by the plough. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2019). drilln.⁵ Brit. /drɪl/, U.S. /drɪl/ Forms: Abbreviated form of drilling n.³ Etymology: Compare German drell (Bremen Wörterbuch). A coarse twilled cotton or linen fabric. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > coarse humhum1620 Surat1643 negannepaut1725 drill1743 cottonade1803 manta1848 sponge cloth1862 cotton drill1899 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from choice of fibres > [noun] > cotton or linen > twilled drilling1640 drill1743 marcella1795 1743 W. Ellis Suppl. to London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) 315 A Sort of Cloth called Drill. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 99 Drills, and other Twilled Linens. 1876 Monthly Pkt. June 570 Boys, on admission, to be..supplied with..2 suits of brown drill. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Jan. 7/1 In cotton goods..America takes a high position in two descriptions, drills and sheetings. 1918 H. G. Wells Joan & Peter xiii. 664 Both the pink gingham and the white drill had been tried on. 1967 Listener 3 Aug. 156/2 Hugh Griffith in khaki drill and a pith helmet. attributive.1757 in C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume (1960) 253/2 Dressed in..a white drill Frock.1882 B. Harte Flip, & Found at Blazing Star 7 His light 'drill' garments.1899 E. W. Hornung Amateur Cracksman 223 A girl in a white drill coat and skirt.1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days vi. 96 Dressed in khaki pagri-cloth shirt, drill shorts and a pigsticker topi. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † drillv.¹ Forms: Also Middle English dril. Etymology: Appears first in Middle English: origin unknown. Obsolete (exc. dialect). 1. transitive and absol. To delay, defer, put off. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (transitive)] forslowc888 eldc897 forsita940 gele971 lengOE drilla1300 delayc1300 onfrestc1300 tarryc1320 jornc1330 dretchc1380 defer1382 forbida1387 to put offa1387 to put (also set) (something) in (or on) delaya1393 dilate1399 fordrawa1400 to put overc1410 latch?c1422 adjournc1425 prolongc1425 proloynec1425 rejournc1425 to put in respite1428 sleuthc1430 respitea1450 prorogue1453 refer1466 sleep1470 supersede1482 respectc1487 postpone1496 overseta1500 respett1500 enjourna1513 relong1523 retract1524 tarde1524 track1524 to fode forth1525 tract1527 protract1528 further1529 to make stay of1530 surcease1530 prorogate1534 to fay upon longc1540 linger1543 retard?1543 slake1544 procrastine1548 reprieve1548 remit1550 suspense1556 leave1559 shiftc1562 suspend1566 procrastinate1569 dally1574 post1577 to hold off1580 drift1584 loiter1589 postpose1598 to take one's (own) timea1602 flag1602 slug1605 elong1610 belay1613 demur1613 tardya1616 to hang up1623 frist1637 disjourn1642 future1642 off1642 waive1653 superannuate1655 perendinate1656 stave1664 detard1675 remora1686 to put back1718 withhold1726 protract1737 to keep over1847 to hold over1853 laten1860 to lay over1885 hold1891 back-burner1975 a1300 Cursor Mundi 23715 Þe ded ai wen we for to dril. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16390 Selcuth vs thinc o þe, pilate wit drightin for to drill [Gött. wid dreching for to drill], We haf vs chosen nu baraban, him haf algat we will. 2. to drill away, on, out: to protract, lengthen out; to fritter away, spend aimlessly (time). ΘΚΠ the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)] > waste time leese?c1225 losea1340 defer1382 wastea1400 slip1435 consumea1500 superexpend1513 slow?1522 sloth1523 to fode forth1525 slack1548 dree1584 sleuth1584 confound1598 spenda1604 to fret out1608 to spin out1608 misplace1609 spend1614 tavern1628 devast1632 to drill away, on, outa1656 dulla1682 to dally away1685 squander1693 to linger awaya1704 dangle1727 dawdle1768 slim1812 diddle1826 to run out the clock1957 a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 464 Purposely drilling out the time, hoping to encline the Senate to favour his designe. 1668 G. Etherege She wou'd if she Cou'd ii. i. 16 We must drill away a little Time here. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 306 They drill'd things on, till they might [etc.]. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth V. 180 He drills on his Evil, then curses his Fate, And bewails those Misfortunes himself did create. a1745 J. Swift (Webster, 1864) This accident hath drilled away the whole summer. 1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins II. i. 6 One Pretence or other..of drilling on the Time till the dark Weather is over. 3. To lead, allure, or entice (a person) on from one point to another (in time or action); and so = to put off (cf. 1). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)] teec888 tightc1000 drawc1175 tollc1220 till?c1225 ticec1275 bringc1300 entice1303 win1303 wina1340 tempt1340 misdrawa1382 wooa1387 lure1393 trainc1425 allurea1450 attract?a1475 lock1481 enlure1486 attice1490 allect1518 illect?1529 wind1538 disarm1553 call1564 troll1565 embait1567 alliciate1568 slock1594 enamour1600 court1602 inescate1602 fool1620 illure1638 magnetize1658 trepana1661 solicit1665 whistle1665 drill1669 inveigh1670 siren1690 allicit1724 wisea1810 come-hither1954 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > evade [verb (transitive)] > put off pop1530 to put off1569 to fode forth (also occasionally forward, off, on, out)1591 to shift offc1592 foist1598 to fob off1600 fub1600 to shuffle off1604 doffa1616 jig1633 to trump upa1640 whiffle1654 to fool off1664 sham1682 drill1752 to set off1768 to put by1779 jilt1782 palm1822 stall1829 job1872 to give (a person) the go-around1925 1669 A. Marvell Let. 15 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 84 So speedily as they may not haue drilld you on beyond the time of prosecution. a1688 Duke of Buckingham Poems (1775) 141 Nor is it wit that drills the statesman on To waste the sweets of life, so quickly gone. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 89. ¶1 She has bubbled him out of his Youth;..she has drilled him on to Five and Fifty, and..she will drop him in his old Age. 1752 T. Gray Let. 19 Dec. in Corr. (1971) I. 368 He drill'd him on with various trifling pretences. 4. To draw or entice (a person) in, into a place; also on, along, out of a thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > entrap, ensnare [verb (transitive)] > into a place, action, etc. betrayc1250 weyec1315 deceivea1375 to draw out1579 fond1628 drill1662 seduce1673 surprise1696 to rope into1859 forset1872 steer1889 1662 E. Hickeringill Wks. (1716) I. 296 Drilling in the rabble with their..buffooneries. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 72 [He] was pickt up by a pack of Rogues in the streets and drilled into a Tavern. 1681 E. Hickeringill Wks. (1716) I. 187 To drill Men out of their Estates. 1696 J. Aubrey Misc. (1721) 97 Having drill'd his Wife along 'till he came to a certain Close..he threw her by Force into the Water. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 114 They drill'd them by discourse so near, that our men lay'd hold on all three at once. 5. intransitive. To slip away, vanish by degrees. dialect. ΚΠ a1333 Shoreham Poems 86/6 Meche hys þe mede þat hym worþe, By so þat he na-drylle.] 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Drill..to slide away. Kent. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Drill, to waste away by degrees. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † drillv.² Etymology: Etymology of this, and the cognate drill n.¹, uncertain. The verb is identical in sense with trill v.¹, frequent from Chaucer onward, and may be an altered form of it. Compare also German trillen to flow whirling or rolling, cited by Grimm from a 17th cent. writer, and taken by him as a sense of drillen to turn. Obsolete. 1. intransitive. To flow in a small stream or in drops; to trickle, percolate; to drip. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > drip or fall in drops [verb (intransitive)] syec725 dreepa1000 dropc1000 tricklec1386 thrill1540 drill1603 dripa1670 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlix. 162 In summer they often caused cold water..to drill vpon them as they sate in their dining-chambers. 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xv. 390 Swift watry drops drill from his eye. 1782 Monro's Anat. Human Bones (new ed.) 62 The liquor..drills down upon the membrane of the nose. reflexive.1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 209 Water..gently drils it selfe from the high Rocks. 2. transferred and figurative. To be derived, spring, flow. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate, derive, or arise [verb (intransitive)] arisec950 syeOE comeOE riselOE springc1175 buildc1340 derivec1386 sourdc1386 proceedc1390 becomea1400 to be descended (from, of)1399 bursta1400 to take roota1400 resolve?c1400 sourdre14.. springc1405 descenda1413 sprayc1425 well?a1475 depart1477 issue1481 provene1505 surmount1522 sprout1567 accrue?1576 source1599 dimane1610 move1615 drill1638 emane1656 emanate1756 originate1758 to hail from1841 deduce1866 inherita1890 stem1932 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 111 Chaldy, Arabick, and Siriack drilling from the Hebrew. Derivatives ˈdrilling n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [adjective] dropping?a1400 distillingc1485 stillinga1542 distillantc1550 drivelling1570 stillant1610 dribbling1627 drilling1634 stillatitious1656 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] > action or process of flowing > small amount trickling1629 drilling1634 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 214 Full of shadowing trees, and drilling Riuolets. 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 226 The drilling down of the Water..from the..Hills. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 86 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) A constant drilling of a glairy Mucus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). drillv.³ Brit. /drɪl/, U.S. /drɪl/ Forms: Also 1600s dril, dryll, 1800s Scottish dreel. Etymology: Known only from 17th cent.; compare drill n.² All the senses are found in Dutch drillen to drill, bore; to turn round; to shake, brandish; to drill, form to arms; to run hither and thither; to go through the manual exercise, Middle Dutch drillen to bore, turn in a circle, brandish; compare Middle Low German drillen to roll, to turn, Middle High German and modern German drillen to turn, to round off, to bore, to drill soldiers. Middle High German gedrollen ‘rounded’, drall ‘(twisted) tight’, point to an old strong verb, of ablaut series þrell- , þrall-* , þrull- . The English verb and noun were probably < Dutch; they are not connected etymologically with thrill , thirl , Old English þyrelian , though sense 1 is identical in sense with it. I. To pierce, bore, make a narrow hole. 1. a. transitive. To pierce or bore a hole, passage, etc. in (anything); to perforate with or as with a drill or similar tool. Also spec. to shoot with a gun (colloquial). (Said chiefly of personal agents.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate through-shooteOE borec1000 thirlc1000 through-boreOE piercec1330 wimblec1440 entera1500 perforate1538 foraminate1599 terebrate1623 drilla1657 forate1657 pertund1657 perviate1657 drill1674 transforate1727 tirl1825 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > other processes makec1450 rough-hew1530 rip1532 stick1573 list1635 frame1663 fur1679 beard1711 cord1762 butt1771 drill1785 joint1815 rend1825 broach1846 ross1853 flitch1875 bore1887 stress-grade1955 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with missile shootc893 shoot1297 feather1415 to shoot (a person, thing) through1535 daga1572 pistol1598 lace1622 to shoot‥through and througha1648 pink1661 pop1762 plump1785 wing1802 drill1808 rifle1821 leg1829 hole1847 shot1855 blunderbuss1870 riddle1874 pip1900 slot1987 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > shoot (a person or thing) shoot1617 to bird off1688 to knock downa1744 to pick off1745 pop1762 drill1808 plug1833 perforate1838 slap1842 stop1845 pot1860 spot1882 plunk1888 pip1900 souvenir1915 poop1917 spray1922 smoke1926 zap1942 crack1943 pot-shoot1969 a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V clviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 140 The Stone dropt Sand; And the drill'd Alpes, became a Posterne which From Time lockt vp, noe foot had ever trode. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xvi. 466 Twirling the hard piece between the palms of their hands, they drill the soft piece till it smoaks, and at last takes fire. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 26 Drill'd in holes, the solid oak is found. 1808 E. S. Barrett Miss-led General i. 11 It would be a terrible affair to us..if we should be drilled with a bullet. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. iv. 39 Being drilled was to be shot through the body. 1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew xl. 6 My lugs ye hae dreel'd. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 213 Rabbit-holes drill the bank everywhere. 1930 Amer. Mercury Dec. 455/2 Go drill the mutt. He's strictly stool. 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xii. 223 I can drill a dime at fifty yards. b. intransitive. To pierce through. ΘΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate through-shooteOE borec1000 thirlc1000 through-boreOE piercec1330 wimblec1440 entera1500 perforate1538 foraminate1599 terebrate1623 drilla1657 forate1657 pertund1657 perviate1657 drill1674 transforate1727 tirl1825 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 196 None of those rayes of other atoms..come riding or drilling through both. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 61. 2. To make or bore (a hole, etc.) by drilling. Also transferred of shooting. ΘΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > by boring, piercing, or perforating piercec1392 bore?1523 drive?a1525 thirl1609 drill1669 perforate1777 stick1834 puncture1851 sieve1875 pin1897 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. 73 There must be a Hole drill'd. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §36 The holes..appear to have been drilled into the rock by Jumpers. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 47 Drill a communication, and put in a nipple. 1890 Nature 4 Sept. 446/1 On August 28, 1859, the first well, drilled in the United States with the object of obtaining petroleum, was successfully completed. 1912 E. C. Bentley Trent's Last Case vi. 136 Thirty thousand men..would have jumped at the chance of drilling a hole through the man. II. To turn round, twirl. †3. transitive. To turn round and round; to whirl, twirl; in quot. 1681 to churn. Obsolete or dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > twirl thwerl1490 snoove1513 thirl1582 twirla1640 drill1681 trundlea1756 twizzle1788 1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 97 They skim off the Cream, and drill it in an earthen Vessel with a stick. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Drill, to twirl, or whirl. Devon. III. To train in military movements and exercise. [Found from 17th cent. also in Dutch, German, Danish (Not in Kilian 1599; in Hexham 1678). Probably from the sense ‘turn round’.] 4. a. transitive. To train or exercise in military evolutions and the use of arms. (‘An old cant word’, Johnson.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (transitive)] train1531 discipline1590 drill1626 redrill1792 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 37 Drilling your men..to ranke, file, march, skirmish, and retire. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 197 The Foe appear'd, drawn up and drill'd. 1842 T. B. Macaulay Frederic the Great in Ess. (1887) 695 The business of life, according to him, was to drill and be drilled. 1842 T. B. Macaulay Frederic the Great in Ess. (1887) 709 He drilled his people as he drilled his grenadiers. b. intransitive for reflexive and passive. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (intransitive)] exercisea1616 drill1848 1848 W. E. Forster Diary 26 May in T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (1888) I. vii Large numbers of men are armed and drilling nightly. 1897 N.E.D. at Drill Mod. The regiment drills regularly every day. 5. transferred and figurative. To train or instruct as with military rigour and exactness. Const. into, in, to, and infinitive. (Also intransitive for reflexive) ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > training > train [verb (transitive)] > drill or rehearse exercise1388 exercite1475 practise1551 rehearse1768 parrot1775 soldier1780 drill1798 1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir ii. sig. E I do hug thee, For drilling thy quick braines in this rich plot. 1797 R. Southey Botany Bay Eclogues in Poems 93 So I..was drill'd to repentance and reason. 1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. I. ix. 253 Where boys are to be drilled in a given time into scholars. 1842¹ [see sense 4a]. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxix. 254 We had drilled with knapsack and sledge, till we were almost martinets in our evolutions on the ice. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxix. 389 Bear-dogs..that had been drilled to relieve each other in the melée. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xii. 189 He had drilled her in all that she should do and say. 6. a. To order or regulate exactly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > order or regulate regulate?a1425 order1509 diet1576 conform1602 drill1877 1877 R. D. Blackmore Erema lii To be a great lady..and regulate and drill all the doings of nature. b. To impart by strict method (a subject of knowledge). ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > instilling ideas > instil ideas [verb (transitive)] > inculcate inculk1528 whet1528 to beat (a thing) into one's head1533 ding1555 inculcate1559 to beat in1561 lesson1602 screw1602 inconculcate1610 drum1648 instil1660 indoctrinate1800 drill1863 pan1940 1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. i. 2 Drill Greek, and instil religious principles into them. c. (See quot. 1894.) ΚΠ 1894 Labour Commission Gloss. (at cited word) To drill a person is to refuse him employment for a certain period, say, a fortnight, as a punishment. Categories » d. U.S. Railways. To shunt (carriages, engines, etc.). Derivatives drilled adj. Π a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V clviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 140 The Stone dropt Sand; And the drill'd Alpes, became a Posterne which From Time lockt vp, noe foot had ever trode. 1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Apr. 420 The drillers..were made liable to transportation..the drilled, to fine, and imprisonment. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar ix. 103 The superiority of the drilled Roman legions. ˈdrilling adj. ˈdrillingly adv. by way of drilling or boring. Π 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 490 The moths drillingly devoured the manuscript. Draft additions January 2011 intransitive. to drill down: (Computing) to navigate directly to data at a lower level of a hierarchically structured system; (gen.) to gain access to or acquire more detailed information about something. ΚΠ 1987 PC Week 3 Feb. By selecting directories or folders, you're able to ‘drill down’ through the directories or folders to access the file you wish to transfer. 1992 Computer Weekly 16 July 18/6 Using hypertext navigation, the maintenance programmer can ‘drill down’ into complex areas of code to test or alter them. 1993 News at Six Summer 5/3 Our partners can look at their information from any angle and drill down to find details behind overall WIP totals. 2006 Philadelphia May 190/2 There's been no billion-dollar incentive for the pharmaceutical industry to drill down on the anti-aging efforts the way it does on age-related disease. 2009 Guardian 26 Nov. (Online Information Suppl.) 14 (advt.) The Research Landscape feature of STN AnaVist comes equipped with lots of tools enabling you to drill down to details of green fiber research. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). drillv.⁴ Etymology: < drill n.⁴ 1. transitive. To sow (seed) in drills, as opposed to broadcast; to raise (crops) in drills. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] > sow seed in drills strain1733 drilla1740 a1740 J. Tull in C. W. Hoskins Occas. Ess. (1866) 102 I composed my machine. It was named a Drill, because when farmers used to sow their beans and pease into channels or furrows by hand, they called that action drilling. 1788 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1891) XI. 223 As all my corn will be thus drilled, so..I mean to put in drills also potatoes, carrots (as far as my seed will go), and turnips. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 148/2 The crops which are now most generally drilled are potatoes, turnips, beans, peas, beet-root, cole-seed, and carrots. 2. To sow or plant (ground) in drills. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] > sow seed in drills > sow ground in drills drill1785 1785 G. Washington Writings (1891) XII. 225 A piece of ground..drilled with corn and potatoes between. 1894 Times 19 Mar. 11/1 He drilled two acres of land with this barley. Derivatives drilled adj. ΚΠ 1766 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. at Wheat An Acre of drilled Wheat. 1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. iv. 100 I do not know that a drilled acre is superior in produce, at first, to a broad-cast acre. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. xviii. 179 Like a drilled-in crop of which not a seed has failed. drilling n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > sowing in drills drilling1767 direct drilling1973 1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 117 The drilling method likewise promises great advantages. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 174 Drilling..now styled the ‘New Husbandry’, is in reality the primitive practice. 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