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The manual labor equivalent of asking someone to walk somewhere instead of driving.
means A simple tool you crank or pump by hand to bore holes, using your own muscle instead of electricity or batteries.
from Straightforward compound of 'hand' (powered by human effort, not a motor) and 'drill' — the tool-and-verb for boring holes, which English borrowed around the 1600s probably from Dutch 'drillen' (to bore, to turn around), itself possibly related to the idea of turning or whirling. No myth needed here — the name just tells you exactly what it is: a drill you run with your own hand.
- predates power
- Used since ancient Egypt for fire starting
- mechanism
- Gears convert hand crank into faster bit rotation
- still useful
- Works fine when batteries die or outlets vanish
- forearm cost
- Builds grip strength no gym machine replicates