drilling

IPA: drˈɪɫɪŋ

Act of drilling.
A long firearm with three barrels (typically a mix of shotgun and rifle barrels).
A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton; drill.
A surname from German.

Examples of "drilling" in Sentences

Note that almost all the drilling is proposed for the coasts of red states.
Horizontal drilling is another impressive breakthrough that allows us to get to oil and gas that was previously unattainable.
With the aggressive backing of the Bush administration, many members of Congress and the energy industry, at least a sixfold expansion in drilling is likely here in the coming decade.
My cite also makes the point that Obama apparently believes that more drilling is fairly small potatoes – which other posters, somewhat more perspicacious than DTM have already grasped and made reference to.
The definition drilling at both the east and west designed pit areas continues to intersect wide intervals of iron formation containing distinct zones of high-grade, coarse-grained, specular hematite-rich mineralization.
Fred Brackebusch, President of New Jersey Mining commented, The definition drilling being conducted for the open pit resource is yielding results better than I expected based on Newmont's widely spaced reverse-circulation drilling done in 1988 and 1989.