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Drill \Drill\, n.

  1. A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.]

    Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills.
    --Sandys.

  2. (Agr.)

    1. An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

    2. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.

    3. A row of seed sown in a furrow.

      Note: Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow.

      Drill barrow, a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills.

      Drill bow, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn.

      Drill harrow, a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills.

      Drill plow, or Drill plough, a sort plow for sowing grain in drills.