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The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.

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  1. n. The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
  2. n. hard monotonous routine work
  3. The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke. Syn. -- See Toll.
  4. The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignobleor slavish toil.The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay.Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with outsorrow. Locke.
  5. n:100 n. hard monotonous routine work