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DRILL

Volume 2 · 49 words · 1771 Edition

in mechanics, a small instrument for making such holes as punches will not conveniently serve for. Drills are of various sizes, and are chiefly used by smiths and turners.

or DRILL-BOX, a name given to an instrument for sowing land in the new method of horse-hoeing husbandry. See AGRICULTURE.