Dictionary entry

Drill (4)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Drill, v. t. [Cf. Trill to trickle, Trickle, Dribble, and W. rhillio to put in a row, drill.] 1. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. Thomson.

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.

See drilled him on to five-fifty. Addison.

4. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

This accident hath drilled away the whole summer. Swift.