counter-drill

1. 1.

   drill in an opposite direction

   Broaderbore

Questions about counter-drill

What does counter-drill mean?

counter-drill means "drill in an opposite direction".

How many syllables are in counter-drill?

counter-drill has 3 syllables: coun-ter--drill. The stress falls on "coun".

Is counter-drill a common word?

counter-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.