drudge vs graft

drudge

noun
  • A person who works in a low servile job. 

  • Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else. 

verb
  • To labour in (or as in) a low servile job. 

graft

noun
  • A con job. 

  • A cut of the take (money). 

  • A job or trade. 

  • A criminal’s special branch of practice. 

  • A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty. 

  • A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. 

  • The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel. 

  • A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches. 

  • A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. 

  • Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life. 

  • Corruption in official life. 

  • A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis. 

  • Work; labor requiring effort. 

verb
  • To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns. 

  • To form a graft polymer 

  • To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting. 

  • To work hard. 

  • To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union. 

  • To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union. 

  • To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices. 

  • To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon. 

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