rock drill

Questions about rock drill

What does rock drill mean?

rock drill means "a drill for penetrating rock".

What is another word for rock drill?

Close synonyms include bore bit, borer, stone 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 rock drill a common word?

rock 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rock drill come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.