Drills is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DRILLS in dictionary:

VERB:
• DRILL, to bore a hole in
• 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 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

Words related to DRILLS

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How to use DRILLS in a sentence

• In the preliminary drills in the defenses the position of guard is resumed, by command, after each parry.
• A perfectly green recruit who has never fired a rifle may be made into a good shot by a little instruction and some preliminary drills and exercises.
• Next he tells us what are to be the drills of the day.
• The popular practice is to sow the seed in drills about 2 to 3 feet apart so that horses may be used for cultivation.
• It was his duty to replace the drills in the Burly, putting in longer ones as the hole got deeper and deeper.
• Lastly, sow everything in drills at the proper distances apart.
• In pits the beds should be one foot deep, the drills one foot apart, and the plants six inches asunder in the rows.
• Sow in April and May, thinly in drills, and allow the plants eventually to stand at about fifteen inches apart each way.
• A narrow border marked off in drills, and, if possible, sloping to the south, will answer admirably.
• The drills must be drawn across the bed, at right angles to the alleys, for when drawn the other way it is difficult to keep the ground properly weeded.
• Sow the main crop in drills nine inches apart, and tread or beat the ground firm.
• Not later than the third week of February the roots should be planted in drills drawn six inches apart and two inches deep.
• A sowing in drills on a carefully prepared bed in the open ground is also desirable, and in some seasons it may produce the most valuable plants of the year.
• Others lay them in deep drills, partly filled with a similar light mixture.
• A small gasoline engine supplied the power which turned his lathe and worked the drills, saw and plane.
• It was drilled by four drills mounted on two columns, and was blasted in the ordinary way.
• The center heading was drilled by four drills mounted on two columns.
• The stalk was used for hand drills and fire sticks.
• And sometimes for an hour or so I watched my leaden soldiers go, With different uniforms and drills, Among the bed-clothes, through the hills.
• So Ray kept it that night and intended taking it to town Wednesday morning, but drills interposed.
• For ten years he had seen no more of military service than the drills of the cadet battalion.
• There were a few minutes yet before the afternoon drills.
• With the coming of spring the boat drills were resumed in earnest.
• These drills at the Fort were no fancy dress-parades.
• Two or three women follow and drop the plants in the drills, say from nine to ten inches apart.
• Wheat is here sown in drills, in some places the crop is promising.
• The wife then works in the gardens or plantations, while her husband drills, and returns at midday and in the evening to cook his food.

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