pneumatic drill

noun

: a heavy tool used to break hard substances (such as concrete) into pieces by a repeated pounding action

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Who knows, maybe the girlfriend and the pneumatic drill end up finding something special. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026 Each captures a 10-minute snippet of what sounds like a pneumatic drill that fires erratically, accompanied by the cackle of another bird. — David Segal, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025 Former player Maria Sharapova’s world-class shrieks were once measured at 101 decibels — roughly the level of a pneumatic drill. — Brandon Griggs, CNN Money, 8 July 2025 Anesthesia was introduced in 1846, the pneumatic drill in 1868, dental X-rays in 1896. — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025

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