core drill

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   a drill that removes a cylindrical core from the drill hole

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Questions about core drill

What does core drill mean?

core drill means "a drill that removes a cylindrical core from the drill hole".

Is core drill a common word?

core 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.