toils - 4 dictionary results
toil
1 [toil]
,–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
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
Antonyms:
1. indolence, sloth.
1. indolence, sloth.
toil
2 [toil]
,–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 tēla web
1520–30; < F toile < L tēla web

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toil 1 (toil) intr.v. toiled, toil·ing, toils
[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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