| 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 tudicul  re, 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 t  la, web; see teks- in Indo-European roots.] |
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