Hole making

thumb|A hand-held corded electric drill thumb|A lightweight magnetic-mount drill

cutting tools used to create cylindrical holes

office tool for making uniform holes in paper

technology that uses a laser to cut materials

thumb|Titanium drilling

thumb|Borehole digging for a borewell or tube wellthumb|Borewell diggingthumb|upright|A woman in Uganda collects water from a borehole and attached hand pump thumb|A drilled well in Ghana; the borehole is not visible

metal fabrication process whereby a desired shape is obtained by using electrical discharges to remove material

type of hand drill

integrated system that drills wells

small tool for making holes

process of enlarging a hole that has already been drilled

thumb|Extruded holes with the punch and die used to create them. No pilot hole was used on the left.

Hole saw

drilling a hole, tunnel, or well in the earth

thumb|A trephine with a center pin can be seen on the left. thumb|right|Dr. John Clarke [[trepanning a skull, ca. 1664, in one of the earliest American portraits. Clarke has a trephine in his right hand. The painting is in Harvard Medical School.]]

tool used to create holes

hole making in which the effective material thickness is increased with the aid of friction

thumb|A pounce wheel, also known as a tracing wheel

type of cutter or machine tool for deep hole drilling

perpendicular feed device for hand-held drilling machine