drills

any strict, methodical, repetitive, or mechanical training, instruction, or exercise: a spelling drill.

the correct or customary manner of proceeding.

Also called snail bore. a gastropod, Urosalpinx cinera, that bores holes in shellfish, as oysters.

to pierce or bore a hole in (something).

to make (a hole) by boring.

Military. to instruct and exercise in formation marching and movement, in the carrying of arms during formal marching, and in the formal handling of arms for ceremonies and guard work.

to impart (knowledge) by strict training, discipline, or repetition.

to pierce or bore something with or as with a drill.

to go through exercise in military or other training.

a small furrow made in the soil in which to sow seeds.

a row of seeds or plants thus sown.

a machine for sowing in rows and for covering the seeds when sown.

to sow (seed) in drills.

to sow or plant (soil, a plot of ground, etc.) in drills.

to sow seed in drills.