What is "drill grounds"

Usage examples of "drill grounds".

I had the interior laid out in a checkerboard cross with the center square for the headquarters group, the four squares on its points for four battalions with the squares between as drill grounds.

Beyond the drill grounds I glimpsed the targets of a musket range, and beyond them, the brushy banks of the river.

In this suburb, with its kitchen gardens, drill grounds, drainage fields, slightly sloping cemeteries, shipyards, athletic fields, and military compounds, in Langfuhr, which harbored roughly 72,000 registered inhabitants, which possessed three churches and a chapel, four high schools, a vocational and home-economics school, at all times too few elementary schools, but a brewery with Aktien Pond and icehouse, in Langfuhr, which derived prestige from the Baltic Chocolate Factory, the municipal airfield, the railroad station, the celebrated Engineering School, two movie houses of unequal size, a .

From his present vantage point he could look down into the drill grounds where thousands of young Baidee, tunicked and turbaned, identical as grains of sand, engaged in weapons practice.

I'll bet my bottom credit those gaming fields of the green and yellow balls are disguised drill grounds.

In the Men's Community Houses, I have representatives, who wink at the departure of the Companions for stealthy drill grounds, deep down in the city catacombs, in the silence of mountain forests and in isolated highland valleys, where every man is committed to my cause.