Drills
Labor
Labor noun - A dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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While they act as manual labor the trope is played with as they are implanted with machinery like drills to do their work.
- Individual prisons tended to be infamous for the particular punishment drills they favored, usually hard physical labor like literal rock-breaking or "the well drill," where soldiers dug out wells and then filled them in so they had a place to dig the next well.
Source: Useful Notes / British Prisons
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