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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

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
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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.
toil 2   (toil)   
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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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