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Drilling   /drˈɪlɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Drilling  n.  
1.
The act of piercing with a drill.
2.
A training by repeated exercises.


Drilling  n.  The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.


Drilling  n.  (Manuf.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.


verb
Drill  v. t.  (past & past part. drilled; pres. part. drilling)  
1.
To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.
2.
To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. "He (Frederic the Great) drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers."


Drill  v. t.  
1.
To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. (R.)
2.
To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
3.
To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; with on. (Obs.) "See drilled him on to five-fifty."
4.
To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. (Obs.) " This accident hath drilled away the whole summer."


Drill  v. i.  To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.


Drill  v. i.  
1.
To trickle. (Obs. or R.)
2.
To sow in drills.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Drilling" Quotes from Famous Books



... working hard, these last weeks," went on Trevanion; "drilling, drilling; training, training; preparing for the fray, and waiting and longing to, hear the command, 'Up, lads, and at them!' Thank heaven the ...
— All for a Scrap of Paper - A Romance of the Present War • Joseph Hocking
... immediate result of the Emperor's visit was a close understanding between the Wilhelmstrasse and the Sublime Porte. The buying of vast quantities of guns, ammunition, and the influx of Prussian officers and drilling instructions, besides huge orders of all sorts of German ...
— The Secrets of the German War Office • Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves
... middle-aged, not a man but was what they themselves would have termed both "fit" and "keen." They had wrought for many days in the erection of sand-bag defences, in the digging of trenches, in the drilling of Baraland Irregulars and Rifle Volunteers and the newly-enrolled Town Guard. This was the pleasant social time of lull before the storm, and they were not to get many more good dinners or peaceful nights in ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... catching her as she fell. All day she had thrilled to him. Now, more than ever, she thrilled. She imagined she saw him striding along through the big boles of the pines; passing swiftly, silent and stern, through a faint patch of light; standing in the shadows, listening, his keen eyes drilling the obscurity; passing on again, vigorous, forceful, determined, and "splendid." She wondered if he would come up with Swen Brodie; most of all she wondered when she ...
— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory
... (those busy fingers were never idle) she kept her eyes well fixed on him. Now and again I saw him glance at his motherless girls with what looked like a tender, protecting regret; especially when "Clara" had been most openly drilling them; but he dared not interfere. She was crushing their spirit, as she was crushing their father's—and all, bear in mind, for the best of motives! She had their interest at heart; she wanted to do what was right for them. Her manner to him and to them was always honey-sweet—in ...
— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen


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