droil

/dɹɔɪl/

Etymology

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

noun

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”
hard work; toil or drudgery.“When the burden of daytime droil is o'er”

verb

To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.