Usually means: Tool for making holes quickly.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. drill: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. drill, drill, drill, drill, the drill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drill, drill, drill, drill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drill, drill: Wordnik
  7. drill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. drill: Wiktionary
  9. drill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. drill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. drill: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. drill: Dictionary.com
  13. drill (1), drill (2), drill (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. drill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Drill (EP), Drill (agriculture), Drill (album), Drill (animal), Drill (band), Drill (disambiguation), Drill (fabric), Drill (mammal), Drill (military), Drill (music genre), Drill (tool), Drill, The Drill (album), The Drill (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Drill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. drill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. drill: Rhymezone
  19. drill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. drill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. drill: Free Dictionary
  22. drill: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. drill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. drill: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. drill: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. drill: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. DRILL: Band Terms
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Drill (tool), drill: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drill (tool), drill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Drill (tool), drill: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DRILL: Acronym Finder
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. drill: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Drill: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. drill, drill, drill, drill, drill, drill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. drill, the drill: Urban Dictionary
  3. Drill: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Drill: Sports Definitions

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  7. Textile (No longer online)
  8. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

(Note: See drillability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
verb:  (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
verb:  (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
verb:  (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
verb:  (transitive) To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
verb:  (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
verb:  (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
verb:  (slang) To shoot; to kill.
noun:  A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
noun:  The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
noun:  An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
noun:  A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
noun:  Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
noun:  (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
noun:  An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
noun:  A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
noun:  A row of seed sown in a furrow.
verb:  (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
noun:  (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
noun:  An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
noun:  A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.

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