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droils

droils is the plural of droil.

Meaning of droil

Noun

droil (countable and uncountable, plural droils)

  1. (obsolete) 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 dunghillsc. 1613, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, “Wit at Several Weapons. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC...
  2. (obsolete) hard work; toil or drudgery.
    • When the burden of daytime droil is o'er1880, Karl Knortz, Otto Dickman, Modern American Lyrics

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Questions about droils

What is droils the plural of?
Droils is the plural of droil.

Words near droils in the dictionary

  1. droid
  2. droids
  3. droil
  4. droiled
  5. droiling
  6. droils
  7. droit
  8. droit de seigneur
  9. droit de suite
  10. droit du seigneur
  11. droit of admiralty

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