\Drudg"er*y\, n.
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}.