different between drill vs spud

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?l, IPA^(key): /d??l/, [d???]
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

1. (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).

   Synonyms: excavate, bore, gouge; see also Thesaurus:make a hole

2. (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
3. (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
   • 1859, Thomas Macaulay, Life of Frederick the Great

     He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.

4. (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.

5. (intransitive) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level

6. (transitive) To hit or kick with a lot of power.
7. (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
8. (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.

   Synonyms: plow, poke, root, shaft; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 2010, MasseMord, Masshealing Masskilling

     Everytime when I rape your daughter. Your beautiful faces expressing how it hurts. Always while I drill her c*nt. I want to see you dead.

   • 2012, SwizZz, Flu Shot

     Guess I'll be drilling her butt

Translations

Noun

drill (plural drills)

1. A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.

2. The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.

3. An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.

   • Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills.

4. Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
5. (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.

Wikispecies

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:drill.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• drill bit
• twist drill
• drill press
• drill down

Etymology 2

Perhaps the same as Etymology 3; compare German Rille which can also mean "small furrow".

Noun

drill (plural drills)

1. An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
2. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
3. A row of seed sown in a furrow.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

1. (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.

Translations

Etymology 3

Uncertain. Compare the same sense of trill, and German trillen, drillen. Attestation predates Etymology 1.

Noun

drill (plural drills)

1. (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.

Translations

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

1. (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
   • 1615, George Sandys, The Relation of a Journey begun an. Dom. 1610, in four books

     Now it is a great square profunditie ; greene , and uneven at the bottome : into which a barren spring doch drill from betweene the stones of the North - ward wall

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English drillen, origin unknown.

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.

   Synonyms: entice, lead on, lure
2. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
   • August 28, 1731, letter by Jonathan Swift to John Gay and Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry

     This cursed accident hath drilled away the whole summer.

Translations

Etymology 5

Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.

Noun

drill (plural drills)

1. An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.

Translations

Further reading

• Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 6

From German Drillich (“denim, canvas, drill”).

Noun

drill (countable and uncountable, plural drills)

1. A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.

Synonyms

• chino

Derived terms

• khaki drill, KD

Translations

French

Etymology

English drill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?il/

Noun

drill m (plural drills)

1. drill (tool)

Related terms

• driller

Further reading

• “drill” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

drill

1. singular imperative of drillen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of drillen

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

drill

1. imperative of drille

Westrobothnian

Verb

drill (preterite drillä)

1. (transitive) twist, turn

English

Etymology

From Middle English spudde (“small knife”). Origin unknown; probably related to Danish spyd, Old Norse spjót (“spear”), German Spieß (“spear; spike; skewer”). Compare English spit (“sharp, pointed rod”). The use of the term for a potato was originally in British dialect and slang usage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?d/
• enPR: sp?d
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

spud (plural spuds)

1. (informal) A potato. [from 1845]
   • 1927, Boys' Life (May 1927, page 8)

     We were peeling spuds on afternoon detail back of the lodge at summer camp — Billy Dean and I, and two or three more — and as usual arguing about whether the camp work ought to be done that way or not […]

2. (informal) A hole in a sock.
   • 1958, M, K. Joseph, I'll Soldier No More: A Novel,

     He leans over to one side to get the light, as he darns a hole in the heel of a sock. He is getting pretty smart at it now, and no longer makes spuds in the sock to chafe his heels.

   • 1990, Ray Salisbury, Sweet Thursday: A Novel,

     He was getting tall too, and his trousers were short even though his turn-ups had been turned down, and he'd got a spud in his socks where his shoe rubbed where he trod over trying to walk bow-legged to look like a cowboy.

   • 2000, Christopher Nolan, The Banyan Tree: A Novel,

     His wife was darning a sock, running a needle and yarn across and back, over and under, up and down, gradually filling in the big spud-hole in her husband's sock.

   • 2007, Trevor Griffiths, Sam, Sam in Theatre Plays One,

     (Already becoming absorbed in his feet through the giant spud in his sock) Anyway, I'm er, I'm sorry. A quite unnecessary embarrassment for you. (He removes sock completely, begins rhythmic rubbing of webs)

3. (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
4. (obsolete) Anything short and thick.
5. (obsolete, US, dialect) A piece of dough boiled in fat.
6. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
7. (obsolete) A dagger. [from mid-15th c.]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)

8. A digging fork with three broad prongs.
9. A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc. [From 1660s.]
   • 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Pastoral Dialogue, 1910, William Browning (editor), The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2, 2004, Gutenberg eBook #13621,

     My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixt, / Than strongest weeds that grow these stones betwixt: / My spud these nettles from the stone can part; / No knife so keen to weed thee from my heart.

   • 1885, Richard Jefferies, After London: or Wild England, 2004 [1905], Gutenberg eBook #13944,

     Deprived of motion by the blow of the club, it can, on the other hand, be picked up without trouble and without the aid of a dog, and if not dead is despatched by a twist of the Bushman's fingers or a thrust from his spud. The spud is at once his dagger, his knife and fork, his chisel, his grub-axe, and his gouge. It is a piece of iron (rarely or never of steel, for he does not know how to harden it) about ten inches long, an inch and a half wide at the top or broadest end, where it is shaped and sharpened like a chisel, only with the edge not straight but sloping, and from thence tapering to a point at the other, the pointed part being four-sided, like a nail.

   • 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves Takes Charge, Carry On, Jeeves, 2008, Arrow Books, page 19,

     A most respectable old Johnnie, don't you know. Doesn't do a thing nowadays but dig in the garden with a spud.

10. A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
11. (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
    • 1991, Gerald Millerson, The Technique of Lighting for Television and Film (page 299)

      This spigot (spud) is used to support the lamp, and allows it to be turned from side to side. The spud fits into a socket in a bracket (receptable^[sic]) or a C-clamp. This fixture enables you to suspend the lighting fixture from an overhead bar […]

Derived terms

• sofa spud
• spud cocky
• spudger
• spud gun
• spudlike

Translations

Verb

spud (third-person singular simple present spuds, present participle spudding, simple past and past participle spudded)

1. (drilling) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
   • 1911, Isaiah Bowman, United States Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 257: Well-Drilling Methods, page 46,

     A rope called the jerk line is attached to the wrist pin of the band-wheel crank, brought inside the derrick, and attached to the part of the drilling cable which extends from the crown pulley to the bull-wheel shaft by a curved metal slide called a spudding shoe. (See fig. 8.)

   • 1999, Steve Devereux, Drilling for Oil & Gas: A Nontechnical Guide, page 86,

     When a well is spudded, the drilling assembly is loosely tied to the guide wires with 1/2? manila rope.

   • 2008, Ruwan Rajapakse, Pile Design and Construction Rules of Thumb, page 367,

     Spudding is the process of lifting and dropping the pile constantly until the obstruction is broken into pieces. Obviously, spudding cannot be done with lighter piles (timber or pipe piles). Concrete piles and steel H-piles are good candidates for spudding.

   • 2008, J. K. Lasser, J.K. Lasser?s Your Income Tax: 2009, Professional Edition, page 238,

     Prepayments of drilling expenses are deductible by tax-shelter investors only if the well is “spudded” within 90 days after the close of the taxable year in which the prepayment was made, and the deduction is limited to the original amount of the investment.

2. (roofing) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
3. (camping) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.

Derived terms

• spudding shoe

Related terms

• spudding (noun)

Proper noun

spud

1. A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching a ball.

Anagrams

• Dsup, PDUs, PSDU, UDPs, dups, puds

Lushootseed

Etymology

From English spoon.

Noun

spud

1. spoon

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English spudde.

Noun

spud

1. a knife

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN