"drill" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Despite good progress made with the steam drill, the heat from the steam caused the tunnel to become too hot, and pneumatic power was used beginning April 28.
- The archeologist hefted his pick and shovel and went at it like John Henry trying to beat that steam drill.
- It concerned a legendary railroad worker who died while trying to prove that he and his sledgehammer could get more done on the tracks than a steam drill could.
- And the steam drill was symbolized by a group of men led by the high-jumping Mr. Perry.
- After all, a steam drill could be a valuable labor-saving device.
- The legend of John Henry, the railroad worker who pitted his physical might against a steam drill and died in the process, is known primarily through a folk song.
- Wili thought back to the image of John Henry and the steam drill.
- But John Henry died from racing that steam drill.
- The steam drill is invented in 1879.
- Using just his sledgehammer and steel bit, John Henry outworks a steam drill, but as the song says, he pays a terrible price.
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