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Meaning of droil | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
dɹɔɪl

Definitions

  1. A drudge; a minion or servile worker.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
  2. hard work; toil or drudgery.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“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”
“When the burden of daytime droil is o'er”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

droit droit de seigneur droit de suite droit of admiralty Droitwich Droitwich Spa

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