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well-drilled, ppl. a.
[See drill v.3]
1. Thoroughly trained, exercised, or disciplined.
1817Lady Morgan France I. 53 A certain mechanical immobility of the well-drilled countenances. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. iv. 170 Immediately afterwards Richelieu handed over a well-drilled territory to Louis XIV. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 257 Its vast and well-drilled army of Jesuits.
2. Skilfully pierced or perforated.
1873W. Pengelly Cave Men Devon. in Manchester Sci. Lect. Ser. v. & vi. 125 A bone needle with a well-drilled eye in it. 1896Kipling Seven Seas, Story of Ung 31 No store of well-drilled needles. |
