drill press

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   a machine tool with a separate, upright stand; an electric drill is pressed into the work automatically or with a hand lever

   Broadermachine tool

   Partselectric drill

Questions about drill press

What does drill press mean?

drill press means "a machine tool with a separate, upright stand; an electric drill is pressed into the work automatically or with a hand lever".

Is drill press a common word?

drill press 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.