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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Drill, n.
 1. A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.]
    Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills.   --Sandys.
 2. Agr. (a) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. (b) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. (c) A row of seed sown in a furrow.
 Note:Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow.
 Drill barrow, a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills.
 Drill bow, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn.
 Drill harrow, a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills.
 Drill plow, or Drill plough, a sort plow for sowing grain in drills.