churn drill


noun
  1. a portable drill rig using a bit fashioned on a massive steel cylinder that is alternately lifted and dropped to drill a hole in earth and rock.

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How to use churn drill in a sentence

  • This is a mechanical method and one form of apparatus employed is of the churn-drill type common throughout oil and coal regions.

    The Business of Mining | Arthur J. Hoskin