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toiler|ˈtɔɪlə(r)| [f. toil v.1 + -er1.] One who toils, a hard worker.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Peter i. 2 Goodes (in getting and heaping together wherof the toylers of the world thinke themselfes fortunate). 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Tracasseur, a busie body, a toyler to little purpose. 1858Miss Mulock Th. ab. Wom. 86 ‘In all labour there is profit’—ay, and honour too, if the toilers could but recognise it. 1909Chr. Express 1 Mar. 41/2 Any toiler in the field of sociology—black or white. |