Vocabulary : Driftwind to Drillstock
Driftwind : A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.Driftwood : Wood drifted or floated by water. ;; Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Drifty : Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
Drill : To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal. ;; To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. ;; To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self. ;; An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press. ;; 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; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill. ;; Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and
Drill press : A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
