Crossword clues for drilled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drill \Drill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Drilling.] [D. drillen to bore, drill (soldiers); probably akin to AS. pyrlian, pyrelian, to pierce. See Thrill.]
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.
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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.
He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. -- Macaulay.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: drill)
WordNet
adj. trained in a skill by repetitious practice; "well-drilled in military procedures"
Usage examples of "drilled".
Gird had also drilled the others, in the afternoon, and insisted on their cleaning up.
They drilled apart three days, and came together on the fourth, to practice larger group movement outside the forest, on a grassy hillside.
They drilled together only a few times, and cautiously, with watchers on all the nearby heights.
For example, leaving law aside, have you ever drilled two or three cohorts together?
He tells Mariella that he wants to change the plan, go straight to the borehole the Chinese expedition has already drilled and left behind.
And then the first Chinese mission to Mars claimed to have drilled into water-bearing rock in the deep trough of Chasma Boreale, and to have found no signs of life.
She can make rough estimates of some of these from analyses of the Martian water, but it was almost certainly contaminated when the borehole was drilled, and change in one variable can easily affect others.
This particular asteroid was pierced and drilled with tunnels from crust to crust.
Yet the fact remains that many of the first wells were drilled at points of seepage on the eastern escarpment.
We had not yet drilled deep enough for me to feel any of the excitement that is inherent in drilling when the bit is approaching the probable area of oil.
James Renshaw who drilled deep down into the ice looking for thousand-year-old traces of carbon monoxide and other gases.
The plunger, Schofield guessed, was the part of the machine that drilled down into the ice and obtained the ice cores.
They still drilled the vast majority of test wells in the exploration for new fields, as high as nine times the .
Martian water, but it was almost certainly contaminated when the borehole was drilled, and change in one variable can easily affect others.
With plenty of fuel, with only one carrier to attack, he could indulge in drilled doctrine, Warren thought, instead of making the pell-mell dives of the morning strike.