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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. DROILnoun

    A drone; a sluggard.

    Etymology: by Franciscus Junius understood a contraction of drivel.

  2. 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

  1. Droilverb

    to work sluggishly or slowly; to plod

  2. Droilnoun

    a drudge

  3. Droilnoun

    mean labor; toil

  4. Etymology: [D. druilen to mope.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Droil

    droil, v.i. to drudge. [Dut. druilen, to loiter.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of droil in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of droil in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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