droil

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English

Etymology

From Dutch druil (“sluggard”). Compare droll.

Pronunciation

Noun

droil (countable and uncountable, plural droils)

  1. (obsolete) A drudge.
  2. (obsolete) Mean labour; toil.

Verb

droil (third-person singular simple present droils, present participle droiling, simple past and past participle droiled)

  1. To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “droil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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