breast drill

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   a portable drill with a plate that is pressed against the chest to force the drill point into the work

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Questions about breast drill

What does breast drill mean?

breast drill means "a portable drill with a plate that is pressed against the chest to force the drill point into the work".

Is breast drill a common word?

breast drill is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.