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electric drill

n. a rotating power drill powered by an electric motor

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Electric drill

An electric drill is a drill which is driven by an electric motor. The invention of the electric drill is credited to Arthur James Arnot and William Blanch Brain of Melbourne, Australia who patented the electric drill in 1889. In 1895, the first portable handheld drill was created by brothers Wilhem & Carl Fein of Stuttgart, Germany. In 1917 the first trigger-switch, pistol-grip portable drill was patented by Black & Decker.

Usage examples of "electric drill".

In the final cabinet, Vess stored several power tools, including an electric drill.

It was the biggest electric drill Lexy had ever seen, a glinting, gleaming steel beast mounted on an extendable suspension frame above a wheeled chassis.

He taught you how to paint your fingers with a rubber composition, how to use an electric drill, how to use the old-fashioned jimmy.

Instead of a cold chisel, you can use an electric drill on the frozen lock cylinder.

It was a cordless electric drill that the police thought was a gun when they blew Big Bob away.

The people who lived in the apartment across the air shaft - an extended family of Brazilian immigrants - spent most of that weekend gathered in the living room, almost as if for a family portrait, staring in astonishment as the Governor of Illinois dangled halfway out of a sixth-story window sinking bolt hole after bolt hole into the brick window frames with a massive three-quarter-inch electric drill that he had borrowed from one of his farmer cousins.

Thrumann had an electric drill with him, and Tad Martin had some other apparatus, as well as the sledge they'd hauled over.

In five minutes, the electric drill was humming almost inaudibly in the thin air, and cutting swiftly into the brittle ice.

Sal watched through a magnifier as her fingers fed new coils through the narrow slots of an electric drill's stator.

Jamieson was carrying with him an electric drill, a hammer and some tapered wooden pegs.

I am so dishonored that if I had an electric drill handy I would commit seppuku.

The one nearer the wardrobe bore a hammer, a plain and an electric drill, the flex of which was plugged into a socket by the doorway, via an extension.

It was thickly glazed with ice and unfamiliar in aspect, resembling a cross between a large electric drill and sections of the chromed exhaust system of a small motorcycle.