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  • 111fag — I. v. n. 1. Droop, sink, flag, grow weary, become fatigued, be tired. 2. Drudge, toil, work to weariness. 3. Be a fag, play the fag, do menial service. II. v. a. 1. Make a fag of, compel to serve or drudge. 2. Tire, weary, fatigue, jade, use up,… …

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  • 112galley slave — noun 1. a slave condemned to row in a galley • Hypernyms: ↑slave 2. a laborer who is obliged to do menial work • Syn: ↑drudge, ↑peon, ↑navvy • Derivationally related forms: ↑drudge …

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  • 113Drug — (dr[u^]g), v. i. [See 1st {Drudge}.] To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] To drugge and draw. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 114Moil — Moil, v. i. [From {Moil} to daub; prob. from the idea of struggling through the wet.] To soil one s self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge. [1913 Webster] Moil not too much under ground. Bacon. [1913… …

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  • 115drone — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English drān; akin to Old High German treno drone, Greek thrēnos dirge Date: before 12th century 1. the male of a bee (as the honeybee) that has no sting and gathers no honey 2. one that lives on the… …

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  • 116grub — I. verb (grubbed; grubbing) Etymology: Middle English grubben; akin to Old English grafan to dig more at grave Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to clear by digging up roots and stumps 2. to dig up by or as if by the roots intransitive verb …

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  • 117slave — I. noun Etymology: Middle English sclave, from Anglo French or Medieval Latin; Anglo French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus, from Sclavus Slavic; from the frequent enslavement of Slavs in central Europe during the early Middle Ages Date:… …

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