twist drill

1. 1.

   a bit or drill having deep helical grooves

   Synonymstwist bit

   Broaderbit

Questions about twist drill

What does twist drill mean?

twist drill means "a bit or drill having deep helical grooves".

What is another word for twist drill?

Close synonyms include twist bit. 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 twist drill a common word?

twist 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.