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drill3, drilling a hard-wearing twill-weave cotton cloth, used for uniforms, etc. drilling [′dril·iŋ] (engineering) The creation or enlarging of a hole in a solid material with a drill. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It will be well to move a little off the road and put in the whole day drilling you, sire. What with recruiting and drilling of soldiers, there was now nothing but warlike bustle in the streets of Boston. Then came Eulalie, the proud beauty, the Juno of the school, whom six long years of drilling in the simple grammar of the English language had compelled, despite the stiff phlegm of her intellect, to acquire a mechanical acquaintance with most of its rules. |
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