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Definition of Breast drill
1. Noun. A portable drill with a plate that is pressed against the chest to force the drill point into the work.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breast Drill
Literary usage of Breast drill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"breast drill.—The breast drill is so named from the fact that it is provided with
a suitable guard that may be placed against the breast while drilling, ..."
2. Machine-shop Tools and Methods by William Samuel Leonard (1908)
"The Breast-drill. — This machine is used for the same purpose as the ... Fig 112
shows a typical breast- drill. The drill is held in a chuck at E, ..."
3. Popular Mechanics Shop Notes (1919)
"A Vise and breast drill Used as a Substitute Drill Press Having to drill a number
of holes in pieces of M>-in. steel with no drill By Combining the Vise and ..."
4. 20th Century Machine Shop Practice: Arithmetic, Practical Geometry by Leonard Elliott Brookes (1906)
"breast drill Attachment. The drill shown in Fig. 16 is designed to apply to a
breast drill, so as to convert into a drill press or bench drill. ..."
5. Compressed Air: Its Production, Uses and Applications; Comprising the by Gardner Dexter Hiscox (1901)
"303 is an illustration of the Chicago rotary breast drill, a very light, ...
THE MEDIUM breast drill. Weight, five pounds. metal, and also for light ..."
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