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darg \dahrg\,
noun:
1. Scot. and North England. a day's work.
2. Australian. a fixed or definite amount of work; a work quota.

...as I thought myself entitled to a young man, and did not relish the apparition of him coming in at the gloaming, when the day's darg was done, and before candles were lighted.
-- Carl MacDougall, "The Devil and the Giro," 2010

Man does not live by money alone, where would we be without our daily darg?
-- Alasdair Gray, McGrotty and Ludmilla, or, The Harbinger Report, 1990

Darg derives from the Old English word dægweorc, from the roots dæg meaning "day" and weorc meaning "work."

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