Definition of Hand drill

1. Noun. A small portable drill held and operated by hand.

Exact synonyms: Handheld Drill
Generic synonyms: Drill

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand Drill

hand bill
hand bills
hand blower
hand brake
hand brakes
hand bridge
hand by a hair
hand calculator
hand cart
hand cheese
hand clapping
hand cream
hand down
hand drill (current term)
hand dryer
hand dryers
hand dye
hand eczema
hand fern
hand grenade
hand grenades
hand holes
hand in
hand in glove
hand in hand
hand in one's dinner pail
hand injuries

Literary usage of Hand drill

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mineral Resources of Alaska: Report on Progress of Investigations in 1907 by Alfred Hulse Brooks (1908)
"Moreover, freight charges are much greater on the steam drill, which weighs with its equipment ten to fifteen times as much as the hand drill. ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"A •ore efficient method of hand-drill work is. however. where one man holds ... Another form of hand drill, called a chum drill, consists of a long bevy bar ..."

3. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society (1892)
"covering the use of the hand-drill, the bow-drill, and the pump- drill, and everything indicates that these tools were well known in the early periods of ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1898)
"The Hand-Auger and Hand-Drill in Prospecting Work. BY CHARLES CATLETT, STAUNTON, VA. (Chicago Meeting, February, 1897.) MUCH has been done of late years to ..."

5. Stones for Building and Decoration by George Perkins Merrill (1891)
"hand drill.—A small steel drill from 8 to 15 inches in length, held in one hand and driven by the hand-hammer (Fig. 5), used in making holes for " plug and ..."

6. Stones for Building and Decoration by George Perkins Merrill (1891)
"hand drill.—A small steel drill from 8 to 15 inches in length, held in one hand and driven by the hand-hammer (Fig. 5), used in making holes for " plug and ..."

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