ice drill

Hole-making fishing tool

An ice drill is a tool for boring holes through ice, used by ice fishers to create openings for their lines, by scientists taking core samples, or by workers installing equipment on frozen surfaces.

Hand-powered augers and motorized drills are common types: He cranked the ice drill until water bubbled up through the hole.

Related
  • augerSpiral hole-maker
  • boreTiresome individual or drill
  • bore holeDrilled geological passage
  • holeAbsence in matter
  • frozenSolidified by extreme cold

frozen lake · lake · fishing · corkscrew · shaft · blade · arctic · core · sample · glacier · spiral · winter · penetrate · crank · handle · hand crank · manual · powered

Opposites
tool function/action

ice drillice scraper

Blade for frozen glass

ice pick · ice tongs · heat gun · torch · de-icer

material worked

ice drillrock drill

Tool for boring stone

jackhammer · post hole digger

thermal context of use

ice drillwelding equipment

Gear for joining metals

soldering iron · heat gun

Family

ice, drill, iced, ices, icing, icy, icier, iciest, icily

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G