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denver drill

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English

Syllables
den-ver -drill
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A training exercise involving the rescue of a person from a confined space through a window.

Etymology

Named in reference to Mark Langvardt, a Denver Fire Engineer who died in an incident of this kind in 1992.

Inflected Forms

the Denver drill (canonical)

Phrases

Denver prop Denver tool

Frequently Paired Words

Denver prop Denver tool

Questions

What does denver drill mean?
A training exercise involving the rescue of a person from a confined space through a window.
Where does denver drill come from?
Named in reference to Mark Langvardt, a Denver Fire Engineer who died in an incident of this kind in 1992.

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