Drill baboon

Drill baboon
鬼狒

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  • drill — English has no fewer than four separate words drill, all of them comparatively recent acquisitions. Drill ‘make a hole’ [16] was borrowed from Middle Dutch drillen, but beyond that is history is obscure. The word’s military application, to… …   Word origins

  • drill — drill1 drillable, adj. drillability, n. driller, n. /dril/, n. 1. Mach., Building Trades. a. a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, esp. by rotation. b. a tool, esp. a hand tool, for holding and… …   Universalium

  • drill — {{11}}drill (n.1) tool for making holes, 1610s, from Du. dril, drille a hole, instrument for boring holes, from drillen to bore (a hole), turn around, whirl (see DRILL (Cf. drill) (v.)). {{12}}drill (n.2) small furrow, 1727; also machine for… …   Etymology dictionary

  • drill — I. verb Etymology: Dutch drillen Date: 1619 transitive verb 1. a. to fix something in the mind or habit pattern of by repetitive instruction < drill pupils in spelling > b. to impart or communicate by repetition < impossible to drill the simplest …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • drill — I [[t]drɪl[/t]] n. 1) bui mac a) a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, esp. by rotation b) a tool, esp. a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool 2) mil Mil. a) training in formal marching or …   From formal English to slang

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