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–noun
1.Usually, toils. a net or series of nets in which game known to be in the area is trapped or into which game outside of the area is driven.
2.Usually, toils. trap; snare: to be caught in the toils of a gigantic criminal conspiracy.
3.Archaic. any snare or trap for wild beasts.

[Origin: 1520–30; < F toile < L téla web]
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toil 1    Audio Help   (toil)  Pronunciation Key 
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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toil 2    Audio Help   (toil)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Something that binds, snares, or entangles one; an entrapment. Often used in the plural: caught in the toils of despair.
  2. Archaic A net for trapping game.


[French toile, cloth, from Old French teile, from Latin tēla, web; see teks- in Indo-European roots.]

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