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▪ I. † ˈdriller1 Obs. rare—1.
[? f. drill v.1 + -er1.]
? One who entices or allures (sc. into evil).
1652J. Tatham Commend. Verses to Brome's Joviall Crew, But Shakespeare the Plebean Driller, was Founder'd in 's Pericles, and must not pass.
▪ II. driller2|ˈdrɪlə(r)|
[f. drill v.3 + -er1.]
1. One who drills holes in metal, stone, etc.
b. A machine or contrivance for this purpose.
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 21 The dexterous hands of the filer and driller. 1870Eng. Mech. 28 Jan. 480/1 A driller [i.e. tool].. will bore the holes.
2. a. One who drills others; a drill-master, a drill instructor. Also transf.
1830Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 251 The drillers..were made liable to transportation..the drilled, to fine, and imprisonment. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 177 The great authors of antiquity..degraded from teachers of thinking to drillers in grammar.
b. One who practises military drilling.
1848W. E. Forster in T. W. Reid Life (1888) I. 248 The soldiers..were called out to help the specials to arrest some drillers. 1890C. Martyn W. Phillips 260 A prominent driller in the ‘awkward squad’.
▪ III. ˈdriller3
[f. drill v.4 + -er1.]
One who sows seed by drilling.
1788Trans. Soc. Arts VI. 78 A practical Driller. 1837Penny Cycl. IX. 149/2 The farmer finds horses and seed, and the driller finds the machine. |
