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drillEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗drillEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Perhaps the same as Etymology 3; compare German Rille which can also mean "small furrow".
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗drillEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Uncertain. Compare the same sense of trill, and German trillen, drillen. Attestation predates Etymology 1.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗drillEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From Middle English drillen (“to delay, defer, put off”), of origin unknown.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗drillEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
] Source unknown. Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗drillEnglish (en) · Etymology 6Source text
From German Drillich (“denim, canvas, drill”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- DrillEnglish · e-37683-8576
Drill, dril, v.t. to bore, pierce: to make with a drill: to exercise soldiers, pupils, &c.—to sow seeds, &c., in rows.—n. an instrument for boring stone, metal, teeth, or hard substances (not wood), actuated by a kind of
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Drill, dril, n. a species of baboon found in Western Africa, resembling the mandrill, but smaller. [A contr. of mandrill.]
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