The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drill press \Drill" press`\ . A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
Wiktionary
n. A machine tool in which a rotating cutter, usually a twist drill, is pushed into a workpiece to produce a hole.
Usage examples of "drill press".
West's expert eye skimmed over stand-alone tools such as a drill press, a drum sander, bench grinder, jointer, thickness planer, shaper, and all the expected chisels, Forstner bits, wire-brush wheels, brad-point bits, plug cutter, countersink set.
He landed under a large table with a laser drill press on it, just as the blast wave struck.
Sounded to me like he figures he got his dick caught in a drill press and the only way to keep somebody from challenging his position is to go personally nail Rastar's horns up on a wall somewhere.
Next to the drill press lay the box of cartridge mines-to-be and the pieces of angle iron Chip wanted to bolt onto the trailer.
There were also more ordinary machines lined against a back wall, drill press, lathe, table saw, stuff like that.
A drill press looks the same anywhere and so does a lathe, but others were strange-except that they reminded me of machine shops.
A drill press looks the same anywhere and so does a lathe, but others were strange - except that they reminded me of machine shops.
A drill press looks the same anywhere and so does a lathe, but others were strange -- except that they reminded me of machine shops.
The rest of the porch was taken up with woodworking equipment: a lathe, a drill press, a router, a couple of C clamps, a vise, a wood chisel, a table saw, and an assortment of planes.
More workmen were carrying cooled steel planks to yet another open-fronted shed, where one of the precious gasoline-powered portable generators drove a drill press.
Thus, the Mardukans had early on developed both the machine lathe and drill press, albeit animal driven, as well as machine steel and various alloys of bronze and brass that were far in advance of those found at similar general tech levels in most societies.
I spend a while tinkering with the drill press and reading the manual for the arc-welding apparatus.
Did this have something to do with me putting that I wanted to be a drill press operator on the state achievement test?