To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

To trickle.

To sow in drills.

A small trickling stream; a rill.

A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.

A row of seed sown in a furrow.

A piece of equipment for seeding that is pulled behind a tractor. The drill is used to plant wheat and other small seed crops. It makes a long groove in the soil, drops the seeds into it and then covers and firms the soil above the seed.

A machine towed by a tractor that plants seeds in rows a fixed distance apart. An alternative to broadcasting where seed is thrown into the air, either by hand or machine, and lands in a random pattern across the field. See Tull, Jethro.

() A line impressed on a seedbed for receiving seed. () Any implement used for making such impressed lines.

Implement used to plant seeds like wheat, barley etc.

can mean: a heavy, durable, woven, twilled cotton fabric, or an implement used for sowing crop seed.

sowing seed in rows, usually by machine. The advantage is in more careful spacing of seed and assured seed-soil contact.

Usually refers to a shallow furrow or groove made in cultivated soil for the sowing of seeds, or for the planting of young transplants. But can also refer to the range of machines and implements used for sowing seed at the correct depth. Also, therefore, ‘drilling’, as the process of seed sowing.

Shallow furrow in garden soil made with a cane or the corner of the rake and into which seeds are sown.

An implement used to place an exact amount of seed at a desired depth. This can be from 3kg/ha for canola to 250kg/ha for wheat.

A farm implement for planting seeds which forms a small furrow, deposits the seed in dribbles, covers the seed, and packs soil over it. It can also deposit fertilizer, lime, or other amendments into the soil, alone or with the seed.

In agriculture and gardening, a drill is a shallow furrow in which seeds or bulbs are placed during seeding. A drill is commonly created by dragging a hoe through the soil in a straight line, leaving a furrow of a centimeter or two for smaller seeds, or a deeper trench of several centimeters for flower bulbs and seed potatoes. It makes seeding faster than by individually burying seeds, and also facilitates the creation of straight rows.