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.
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Brandon Griggs, CNN Money, 8 July 2025
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
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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Brandon Griggs, CNN Money, 8 July 2025
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
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 15 Jul. 2025.
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