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Drilling vs Lancinating - What's the difference?

drilling | lancinating |

As a noun drilling

is a triplet (one of three persons born to the same mother at the same time).

As a verb lancinating is

.

As an adjective lancinating is

(especially of pain) sharp, stabbing or piercing.

drilling

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act of ing.
  • A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton; drill.

    • Etymology 2

    From German drei (three)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long firearm with three (or rarely, four) barrels.

    • lancinating

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (especially of pain) Sharp, stabbing or piercing.
  • * 1979 , Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber , Vintage 2006, p. 96:
    • the rains of the equinox had so soaked the earth that the cold oozed up through the soles of the shoes, lancinating cold of the approach of winter that grips hold of your belly and squeezes it tight.