straight-fluted drill

1. 1.

   a rock drill with flutes that are straight

   Synonymsstraight flute

   Broaderbore bit

Questions about straight-fluted drill

What does straight-fluted drill mean?

straight-fluted drill means "a rock drill with flutes that are straight".

What is another word for straight-fluted drill?

Close synonyms include straight flute. 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 straight-fluted drill a common word?

straight-fluted 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.