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• v  work hard
• s  doing arduous or unpleasant work
  drudging peasants

• Both men credit their success to drudging pursuit of the facts.
• At San Francisco he and his secretariat of 300 (mostly Americans) will have the drudging, thankless clerk's job of copying, translating and publishing, running the thousands of .
• But such trips were only occasional relief from the drudging work of the junior infantry officer.

• labor
• labour
• toil
• fag
• travail
• grind
• drudge
• dig
• moil
• laboring
• labouring
• toiling

News & Articles

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• Review: 'Black Sails' is a pirate treasure
  The Starz series 'Black Sails' vividly depicts the daily life of pirates. Something in us loves a pirate. Of all the world's brigands, the pirate is the most romantic, the one whose way of life represents a breezy alternative to our drudging own. What child does not know how many men sit on a dead man's chest?        
  Jan. 25, 2014 - Los Angeles Times