Experimental Analysis of the Influence of Drill Point Angle ... - drill bit point angle
Drill inmeaning
I guess that the speaker means repeat by drill there, but I am in doubt because the Oxford Dictionary, which appears to me the most compehensive, dosn't provide the definition.
Drill as a verb also appears in dictionaries, but with a different usage. Here, it used to mean that someone instructs someone else by means of a drill (a repeated exercise):
Drill inslang
Although a noun, I believe this is an example of a noun spontaneously being used as a verb. In the context of self teaching or self study, it means to perform a drill (a repeated exercise) on or about something:
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It is possible that the self-study sense of the verb drill (drilling multiplication tables, flashcard, and so on) was not common enough to warrant a separate dictionary entry.