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Definition of Hand drill
1. Noun. A small portable drill held and operated by hand.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand Drill
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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