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| 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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intr.v. toiled, toil·ing, toils
n.
[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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n.
[French toile, cloth, from Old French teile, from Latin tēla, web; see teks- in Indo-European roots.] |
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