hand drill

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   a small portable drill held and operated by hand

   Synonymshandheld drill

   Broaderdrill

Questions about hand drill

What does hand drill mean?

hand drill means "a small portable drill held and operated by hand".

What is another word for hand drill?

Close synonyms include handheld drill. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hand drill a common word?

hand 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.