fire drill
noun1
An organized practice to prepare occupants of an office, school or other public building for evacuation in the event of a fire.
- There was a fire drill this morning. We had to leave the building calmly and go to the birch tree, our meeting point.
- Since they've changed the standards again, our previous efforts now just amount to a fire drill.
3
A fire-starting tool consisting of a wooden rod and some primitive means of rapidly rotating the rod on a flat surface like a drill until tinder can be ignited.
- Near-synonym: firestarter (synonymous in some versions)
- There is no machine on earth so potent, yet so simple and elegant, as the two sticks of the Native American fire drill;1999, Paul Douglas Campbell, Survival Skills of Native California, →ISBN, page 4: