Drilling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DRILLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• produce (a hole) in something by or as if by boring with a drill
• make a hole in (something) by boring with a drill
• make a hole in or through something by using a drill
• sink a borehole in order to obtain oil or water
• (of a dentist) cut away part of (a tooth) before filling it
• (of a sports player) hit (a shot) hard and in a straight line
• subject (someone) to military training exercises
• (of a person) take part in military training exercises
• instruct (someone) in something by the means of repeated exercises or practice
• cause (someone) to learn something by repeating it regularly
• sow (seed) with a drill
• plant (the ground) in furrows
NOUN:
• a heavy twilled cotton fabric
• a tool or machine with a rotating cutting tip or reciprocating hammer or chisel, used for making holes.
• a tool with a rotating tip used by a dentist for cutting away part of a tooth before filling it.
• instruction or training in military exercises
• intensive instruction or training in something, typically by means of repeated exercises
• a rehearsal of the procedure to be followed in an emergency
• the correct or recognized procedure or way of doing something
• a predatory mollusc that bores into the shells of other molluscs in order to feed on the soft tissue.
• a machine which makes small furrows, sows seed in them, and then covers the seed with earth.
• a small furrow made by a drill
• a row of plants sown in a drill
• a dark brown baboon with a short tail and a naked blue or purple rump, found in the rainforests of West Africa.
• a coarse twilled cotton or linen fabric
• The act of piercing with a drill.
• A training by repeated exercises.
• The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.
• A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.
• the act of drilling
• the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
• type of hard-wearing cloth
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to bore a hole in
• same as drill

Words related to DRILLING

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How to use DRILLING in a sentence

• The Hillsdales, being the visitors, were given the privilege of drilling first.
• He had partisans who were collecting and drilling troops for him in several parts of Italy.
• His own men were making the most of the daylight left, drilling holes for dear life in the upper surface of the boulder, and fixing the Lewis-wedges and rings.
• They enjoyed looking at the school work, and they enjoyed their lunch under the trees, and the marching and drilling of the boys with their wooden guns.
• Their leaders had sensed the coming frost and were drilling for their long march across the world to their winter home.
• He preferred waiting until autumn, meanwhile organizing and drilling a large army, with which to move down the Mississippi and end the war with a final battle at New Orleans.
• Practically the whole emphasis is laid upon drilling the mind.
• Without the drilling they receive in the army in these matters, one wonders where this population would be.
• He heard Drummer the Woodpecker at work drilling after worms in a tree not far away.
• The review, for which all the drilling had been undertaken, went off without serious effect on the contesting parties.
• Instantly, the trumpet call of the Prussians, returning from their drilling, burst through the windows.
• At first it was difficult to get them to come to drill, but within the last few days they have been drilling hard, and he is convinced that they will fight well.
• Antoine workmen are lounging about doing nothing, and watching others drilling.
• That drilling at Norwich, or the part of it which was supposed to be profitable, was wearing itself out.
• There were fifty boys and girls picked from the different schools and we had a fine drilling each Saturday afternoon in the basement of the church.
• The points formed by drilling the holes can be filed to the pattern size.
• In an open space near by, many soldiers were drilling.
• Benito and Adrian, who had come in late, surveyed the drilling.
• I remember them on the field outside the church, drilling after Sunday service, firing at a stump of a tree.
• I loitered at the Tower to watch the garrison drilling with the big guns.
• Our own drilling was the only sign of war we could see on either side of the river.
• The drilling of the hole requires the greatest amount of work.
• The war fever permeated the whole country by that time, and training and drilling were going on all around.
• The motives for drilling a whole nation in the pursuit of purely national and purely materialistic aims are not strong enough to prevent disintegration.
• The Restrictions do not really prevent the drilling of an armed force.

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