Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A machine-drill; a drill worked by steam-, water-, or horse-power: distinguished from a drill worked by hand.

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Examples

  • I'd need a diamond edge to my axe, or better still a rock-drill to get anywhere with these blokes.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • I'd need a diamond edge to my axe, or better still a rock-drill to get anywhere with these blokes.

    Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Save the Dragons 23 - Dave Freer Blue Tyson 2010

  • Production ground to a halt at Unisel gold mine near Welkom in the Free State on Tuesday when about 2000 workers embarked on a sympathy strike for 259 rock-drill operators fired after an illegal strike.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Despite talks and meetings with the rock-drill operators 'committee on the mine and with National Union of Mineworkers officials, the strikers refused to resume drilling and were served with dismissal notices.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • A hand rock-drill, somewhat over an inch in diameter, was turned up in the lathe, cut with one-eighth-inch pitched, square threads and pointed at the lower end.

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

  • It was because he himself was away on a business journey and Falkman had neglected to take elementary precautions that the big rock-fall occurred in the tunnel, killing four men, and destroying the new Belgian rock-drill, that had cost a good hundred thousand, before it had begun to work.

    The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915

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