droil

noun /dɹɔɪl/

1. A drudge; a minion or servile worker.

   countable, obsolete, uncountable

   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

2. hard work; toil or drudgery.

   countable, obsolete, uncountable

   When the burden of daytime droil is o'er

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry droil (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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