Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. a power drill powered by compressed air
Wikipedia
A pneumatic drill may refer to a:
- Jackhammer, a tool used to break up rock and pavement
- Drill, run by compressed air
Usage examples of "pneumatic drill".
Apart from the frequent convulsions, I was vibrating in every limb in my body, not just shaking like a man with the ague, that would have been easily tolerated but vibrating as a man would have been had he been tied to a giant pneumatic drill.
It was some time before we noticed him, for we were both of us right up in the roof of the shaft and the roar of the compressor and the clatter of the pneumatic drill and the sizzle of compressed air and water was shatteringly loud in that confined space.
He had almost lost interest in the excavations, and had delegated all responsibility to Barton, who was now able to use the big pneumatic drill to his hearts content.
He had almost lost interest in the excavations, and had delegated all responsibility to Barton, who was now able to use the big pneumatic drill to his heart's content.
The pneumatic drill chatter of the donkey-engines drowned the sound of the wave thundering on the beach.
Then, under the sound of the pneumatic drill, I heard the shrilling of a telephone and I was hailed by Jago, who had answered it.
It wasn't that Boamund's voice was flat exactly it was certainly no worse than a pneumatic drill - but there was no guarantee of results, and he didn't want to get another one of his headaches.
In brief, it is an ordinary pneumatic drill hitting on a diaphragm inside that cone, and that will -- or is supposed to -- set off those new mines the Hun has.
At that moment a pneumatic drill decided to penetrate the black tarmac outside the house with great shuddering screams.
He slept through the seven o'clock wailing of the siren, and he slept through the first blast of the pneumatic drill on Main Street, where the city was digging up the pavement again.