Air drill () A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air |
Burring machine () A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. |
Drill (v. t.) To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill |
Drill (v. t.) To train in the military art |
Drill (v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises |
Drill (n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances |
Drill (n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like |
Drill (n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition |
Drill (n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. |
Drill (v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling |
Drill (v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. |
Drill (v. t.) To entice |
Drill (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. |
Drill (v. i.) To trickle. |
Drill (v. i.) To sow in drills. |
Drill (n.) A small trickling stream |
Drill (n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. |
Drill (n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. |
Drill (n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow. |
Drill (n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus). |
Drill (n.) Same as Drilling. |
Drill press () A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw. |
Gold-hammer (n.) The yellow-hammer. |
Gramme machine () A kind of dynamo-electric machine |
Hammer (n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. |
Hammer (n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer |
Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour. |
Hammer (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones. |
Hammer (n.) The malleus. |
Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin |
Hammer (n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters |
Hammer (v. t.) To beat with a hammer |
Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer |
Hammer (v. t.) To form in the mind |
Hammer (v. i.) To be busy forming anything |
Hammer (v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively. |
Hammer-beam (n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam. |
Hammer-dressed (a.) Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer |
Hammer-harden (v. t.) To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state. |
Hammer-less (a.) Without a visible hammer |
Machine (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc. |
Machine (n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy |
Machine (n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another. |
Machine (n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use |
Machine (n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends. |
Machine (n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit. |
Machine (v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery |
Percussion (n.) The act of percussing, or striking one body against another |
Percussion (n.) Hence: The effect of violent collision |
Percussion (n.) The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body |
percussion | the act of exploding a percussion cap |
percussion | the act of playing a percussion instrument |
percussion pleximetry | tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes |
drill | (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms |
exercise practice drill practice session recitation | systematic training by multiple repetitions, practice makes perfect |
fire drill | an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire |
military drill | training in marching and the use of weapons |
close-order drill | (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder) |
hammer pound hammering pounding | the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows), the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard, the pounding of feet on the hallway |
drill Mandrillus leucophaeus | similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored |
adding machine totalizer totaliser | a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions |
addressing machine Addressograph | a printer that automatically prints addresses on letters for mailing |
air hammer jackhammer pneumatic hammer | a hammer driven by compressed air |
answering machine | an electronic device that answers the telephone and records messages |
automatic rifle automatic machine rifle | light machine gun |
ball-peen hammer | a hammer with one round and one flat end, used in working metal |
bathhouse bathing machine | a building containing dressing rooms for bathers |
bore bore-hole drill hole | a hole or passage made by a drill, usually made for exploratory purposes |
bore bit borer rock drill stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
breast drill | a portable drill with a plate that is pressed against the chest to force the drill point into the work |
breathing device breathing apparatus breathing machine ventilator | a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure |
bricklayer's hammer | a hammer used in laying bricks |
Browning machine gun Peacemaker | a belt-fed machine gun capable of firing more than rounds per minute, used by United States troops in World War II and the Korean War |
burp gun machine pistol | a fully automatic pistol, a small submachine gun |
calculator calculating machine | a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations |
car auto automobile machine motorcar | a motor vehicle with four wheels, usually propelled by an internal combustion engine, he needs a car to get to work |
carpenter's hammer claw hammer clawhammer | a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails |
cash machine cash dispenser automated teller machine automatic teller machine automated teller automatic teller ATM | an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used |
computer computing machine computing device data processor electronic computer information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically |
core drill | a drill that removes a cylindrical core from the drill hole |
dentist's drill burr drill | a high speed drill that dentists use to cut into teeth |
dialyzer dialysis machine | a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes |
diathermy machine | a medical instrument for local heating of bodily tissues for medical purposes |
dishwasher dish washer dishwashing machine | a machine for washing dishes |
drill | a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows) |
electric drill | a rotating power drill powered by an electric motor |
drilling bit drill bit | a bit used in drilling for oil |
drill press | a machine tool with a separate, upright stand, an electric drill is pressed into the work automatically or with a hand lever |
drill rig drilling rig oilrig oil rig | rig used in drilling for oil or gas |
drill site | workplace that is the site of a drill hole |
drop forge drop hammer drop press | device for making large forgings |
electric hammer | a hammer driven by electric motor |
electrostatic generator electrostatic machine Wimshurst machine Van de Graaff generator | electrical device that produces a high voltage by building up a charge of static electricity |
facsimile facsimile machine fax | duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio |
farm machine | a machine used in farming |
franking machine | a machine that automatically stamps letters or packages passing through it and computes the total charge |
fruit machine | a coin-operated gambling machine that produces random combinations of symbols (usually pictures of different fruits) on rotating dials, certain combinations win money for the player |
hammer | a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle, used to deliver an impulsive force by striking |
hammer power hammer | a power tool for drilling rocks |
hammer | a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate |