Clues for the word "DRILL"
We've had 108 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 161 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 27, 2026.
Definition of drill
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. i. - To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
- n. - An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.
- n. - The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.
- n. - Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
- n. - A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea.
- v. t. - To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
- v. t. - To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
- v. t. - To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
- v. t. - To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
- v. i. - To trickle.
- v. i. - To sow in drills.
- n. - A small trickling stream; a rill.
- n. - An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- n. - A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
- n. - A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- n. - A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
- n. - Same as Drilling.
Referring Clues
- Practice
- Routine
- Kind of press
- Part of a fire safety program
- Part of a test prep
- It's boring
- Dentist's tool
- It turns a bit
- Customary manner of doing things
- Dentist's implement
- Boot camp routine
- March around camp, e.g.
- Boring device
- Try for a gusher
- Practice exercise
- Root canal tool
- Try to find oil
- Intense practice
- Machinist's tool
- Military practice
- Marching practice
- Bore
- Boring tool
- It can hold a little bit at a time
- Boring tool?
- Machine with bits
- Part of basketball practice
- Private practice?
- Boring thing
- Boot camp activity
- Practice session
- Practice session
- Private practice
- Tool
- Rehearsal
- Hole maker
- Major operation?
- Whiny dental tool
- Repetitive practice
- Word after fire or power
- Auger
- Team practice activity
- Dentist's equipment
- Base exercise
- Fire safety measure
- Tool for a carpenter or dentist
- Practice for a 56 Across
- Jackhammer
- Hole-boring tool
- Dreaded dentist's tool
- Make holes with it
- Another carpenter's tool
- GP not fit for practice
- Something used by dentist or doctor badly
- Training exercise
- Bore - exercise
- It makes a hole in material
- (Correct) procedure
- Do swaddies find it boring?
- Make a hole in and stuff
- Do soldiers find it boring?
- Exercise - bore a hole
- D stream in school
- Soldiers may find it boring
- Not well, goes to doctor - that's the routine
- Bore physician, needing his services
- Exercise that may bore
- Exercise by repeated practice - bore
- Stout cotton cloth
- Doctor gives patients exercise
- A bit of exercise?
- Doctor needing a doctor for practice
- Monkey in khaki for training
- Exercise can be a bore
- Practise making cloth
- Doctor's bad practice
- Exercise may make doctor unwell!
- Should one heal oneself, using exercise?
- Exercise monkey but not man
- It could take a little bit
- Train
- "You know the ___"
- Exercise? One needs a bit
- It has a little bit
- Exercise
- Recruits can find it boring
- Exercise makes doctor unwell
- Exercise is a bore
- Fire ___
- Borer
- The usual procedure can be boring
- Practise boring routine
- Dry run
- Formal procedure for a healer of the sick
- Exercise with flashcards
- Boot camp exercise
- Servicemen may find it boring
- Tool for boring holes
- It can be boring for the soldiers
- Tool with a bit
- Work as a dentist or doctor with the sick
- Hole-making tool
- Practice routine
- Do soldiers find it boring?
- Tool for making holes
- Doctor the sick as standard procedure
- Power tool
- Boringly regular procedure?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 27, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 17, 2026
- LA Times - December 28, 2025
- Daily American - December 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 18, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 15, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 04, 2025
- Daily American - November 17, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 27, 2025
- Daily American - April 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 13, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 19, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 15, 2024
- Mirror Mini - August 12, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 26, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 30, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 02, 2024
- Daily American - December 18, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - December 15, 2023
- Daily Quick - December 15, 2023
- Daily American - November 17, 2023
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