droil

English

Etymology

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

Noun

droil (countable and uncountable, plural droils)

  1. (obsolete) A drudge.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)
  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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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