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toil

1  [toil] ,
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–noun
1. hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
2. a laborious task.
3. Archaic. battle; strife; struggle.
–verb (used without object)
4. to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously: to toil in the fields.
5. to move or travel with difficulty, weariness, or pain.
–verb (used with object)
6. to accomplish or produce by toil.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME toile (n.), toilen (v.) < AF toil contention, toiler to contend < L tudiculāre to stir up, beat, v. deriv. of tudicula machine for crushing olives, equiv. to tudi- (s. of tundere to beat) + -cula -cule 2

Related forms:
toiler, noun

Synonyms:
1. exertion, travail, pains. See work. 4. strive, moil.

Antonyms:
1. indolence, sloth.
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toil 1   (toil)   
intr.v.   toiled, toil·ing, toils

  1. To labor continuously; work strenuously.

  2. To proceed with difficulty: toiling over the mountains.

n.  

  1. Exhausting labor or effort: "A bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is . . . the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil" (George Sand). See Synonyms at work.

  2. Archaic Strife; contention.


[Middle English toilen, from Anglo-Norman toiler, to stir about, from Latin tudiculāre, from tudicula, a machine for bruising olives, diminutive of tudes, hammer.]
toil'er n.
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Word Origin & History

toil  (2)
"net, snare," 1529, from M.Fr. toile "hunting net, cloth, web" (cf. toile d'araignée "cobweb"), from O.Fr. teile, from L. tela "web, woven stuff," related to texere "to weave" (see texture). Now used largely in plural (caught in the toils of the law).
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