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Meaning:
Noun:
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise)
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, ''Mandrillus leucophaeus'', similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
- A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit
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Verb:
- ergative To cause one's subordinates to drill (2)
- To create a hole by removing material with a drill (1)
- To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- To practice, especially in a military context
- To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it
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