drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling
(adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work; “drudging peasants”; “the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton”; “toiling coal miners in the black deeps”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
drudging
present participle of drudge
Source: Wiktionary
Drudge, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drudged; p. pr. & vb. n. Drudging.] Etym: [OE. druggen; prob not akin to E. drag, v. t., but fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. drugaire a slave or drudge.]
Definition: 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.
Drudge, v. t.
Definition: To consume laboriously; -- with away. Rise to our toils and drudge away the day. Otway.
Drudge, n.
Definition: One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 May 2025
(noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
