Drilling
['drɪlɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drill
(n.) The act of piercing with a drill.
(n.) A training by repeated exercises.
(n.) The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.
(n.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.
Typist: Melville
Definition
n. stout twilled linen or cotton cloth.—Also Drill.
Checker: Roberta
Examples
- Jethro Tull in England shortly after invented and introduced a combined system of drilling, ploughing and cultivating. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The machines for drilling and boring are the best that money can buy, and the operatives the most skilful to be found anywhere. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This mode of drilling also effected a revolution in the art of blasting. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The play was the main point; a month's previous drilling being there required. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In drilling 22-calibers, for example, the length of the hole must be from 100 to 125 times the diameter of the drill. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This punching of the cold metal without cutting, boring, drilling, hammering, or otherwise shaping the metal, was indeed a revelation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In India a drilling hopper had been attached to a plough. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Ship building is hastened by these same air drilling and riveting machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They have opposed pouring in from without, and absorbing like a sponge; they have attacked drilling in material as into hard and resisting rock. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- No one saw Mamma drilling them rigidly hour after hour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Tortoises lay their eggs in underground nests, where they remain for almost a year, and, strange to say, they have a very curious way of drilling holes for these nests with their tails. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Checked by Kathy