ppl. a. [See DRILL v.3]

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  1.  Thoroughly trained, exercised or disciplined.

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1817.  Lady Morgan, France, I. 53. A certain mechanical immobility of the well-drilled countenances.

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1864.  Burton, Scot. Abr., I. iv. 170. Immediately afterwards Richelieu handed over a well-drilled territory to Louis XIV.

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1878.  N. Amer. Rev., CXXVII. 257. Its vast and well-drilled army of Jesuits.

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  2.  Skilfully pierced or perforated.

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1873.  W. Pengelly, Cave Men Devon., in Manchester Sci. Lect., Ser. V. & VI. 125. A bone needle with a well-drilled eye in it.

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1896.  Kipling, Seven Seas, Story of Ung, 31. No store of well-drilled needles.

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