单词 | foot drill |
释义 | foot drilln. 1. A military drill or marching exercise; (later also) any training exercise intended to improve footwork. Also as a mass noun. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > type of drill or training sham fight1598 field exercise1616 martinet1677 field evolutions1789 foot drill1795 goose-step1806 war-game1828 rope drill1833 field training1836 repetition training1859 skeleton drill1876 drill-down1889 Beast Barracks1896 basic training1898 monkey motion1909 assault course1915 TEWT1942 workup1971 Taceval1977 1795 Rules & Regulations Cavalry 158 From the 14th March till the Regiment assembles, the riding must go on at the same hour every day,..and a general foot drill for the whole twice per week. 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 43 Attention—The position of the man as in Foot-drill, but holding the left bridoon rein near the ring of the bit. 1897 in H. Compton King's Hussar xxiv. 350 I had only two foot drills a month, four or five mounted drills in the year. 1919 Red Cross Bull. 23 June 5/2 American teachers are instructing the children in gymnastics, games, calisthenics, foot drill, English and hygiene. 1941 E. Linklater Man on my Back ii. 26 Fatigues..and foot-drill, infinitely repeated in a windy playground. 1991 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 July They do timed foot drills, press-ups, three-mile runs on the beach. 2014 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 19 Dec. The 19-week training course included seamanship skills..naval boarding, foot drill, and weapons handling. 2. A drilling machine operated by a foot pedal; esp. one formerly used in dentistry. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentists' drills burr1859 burr-drill1859 drill1859 foot drill1860 tooth-mill1879 society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill > other drills jumper1769 screw drill1821 stop-drill1843 hand drill1845 Swiss drill1846 traverse-drill1853 crown borer1854 pin drill1858 foot drill1860 perforator1861 pin-bit1873 Archimedean drill1889 paddy1895 stope drill1908 stem1914 screw gun1945 1860 I. J. Greenwood Let. 3 Nov. in Dental Reg. West (1861) 15 33 My father was the first to use the ‘foot-drill’, and he made it himself from an old spinning-wheel. 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Foot-drill, a light drilling machine driven by a treadle. 1902 Dental Digest May 370 To make the hole to receive the pivot in the tooth, I always use the foot-drill. 1994 D. J. Warren Old Med. & Dental Instruments (1999) 29/1 Cast-iron foot drills for use in conservative dentistry regularly appear in country auctions, being virtually indestructible. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1795 |
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