drudge

drudge is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.
  2. 2.To consume laboriously; -- with away. Rise to our toils and drudge away the day. Otway.
  3. 3.One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant. Milton.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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