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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Former player Maria Sharapova’s world-class shrieks were once measured at 101 decibels — roughly the level of a pneumatic drill. Brandon Griggs, CNN, 10 July 2024 In some areas, there are still educational installations depicting the different steps miners took in their work: here a figure filling a cart with rocks, there someone attaching explosives to a wall, and elsewhere an elaborate replica of a worker operating a pneumatic drill. Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 May 2023

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“Pneumatic drill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pneumatic%20drill. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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