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droil
/dɹɔɪl/
noun 2verb 1
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2ADJ.
o'er
VERB + DROIL
burden
Definitions
noun
1
A drudge; a minion or servile worker.
Then I begin to rave at my stars' bitterness, / To see how many muckhills plac'd above me; / Peasants and droils, caroches full of dunghills
Two homely droils were authors of my death
2
hard work; toil or drudgery.
When the burden of daytime droil is o'er
verb
1
To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.
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Then I begin to rave at my stars' bitterness, / To see how many muckhills plac'd above me; / Peasants and droils, caroches full of dunghills
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Two homely droils were authors of my death
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When the burden of daytime droil is o'er
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