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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.
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Toils
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
verb (used with object)
6.
to accomplish or produce by toil.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English toile (noun), toilen (v.) < Anglo-French toil contention, toiler to contend < Latin tudiculāre to stir up, beat, verbal derivative of tudicula machine for crushing olives, equivalent to tudi- (stem of tundere to beat) + -cula -cule2
1250–1300; Middle English toile (noun), toilen (v.) < Anglo-French toil contention, toiler to contend < Latin tudiculāre to stir up, beat, verbal derivative of tudicula machine for crushing olives, equivalent to tudi- (stem of tundere to beat) + -cula -cule2
Related forms
toil·er, noun
un·toil·ing, adjective
Antonyms
1. indolence, sloth.
1. indolence, sloth.
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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; < French toile < Latin tēla web
1520–30; < French toile < Latin tēla web
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Word Origin & History
toil
"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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