Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To work sluggishly or slowly; plod.
  • noun Labor; toil; drudgery.
  • noun A drudge.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.
  • noun obsolete A drudge.
  • noun obsolete Mean labor; toil.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A drudge.
  • noun obsolete Mean labour; toil.

Etymologies

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Dutch druil sluggard. Compare droll.

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