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droil
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
DROILnoun
A drone; a sluggard.
Etymology: by Franciscus Junius understood a contraction of drivel.
To Droilverb
To work sluggishly and slowly; to plod.
Let such vile vassals, born to base vocation,
Drudge in the world, and for their living droil,
Which have no wit to live withouten toyle. Edmund Spenser.We see in all things how desuetude does contract and narrow our faculties, so that we can apprehend only those things in which we are conversant: the droiling peasant scarce thinks there is any world beyond his own village, or the neighbouring markets. Government of the Tongue.
Webster Dictionary
Droilverb
to work sluggishly or slowly; to plod
Droilnoun
a drudge
Droilnoun
mean labor; toil
Etymology: [D. druilen to mope.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Droil
droil, v.i. to drudge. [Dut. druilen, to loiter.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of droil in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of droil in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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