Action or activity involving physical or mental effort and undertaken in order to achieve a result, esp. as a means of making one's living or earning…

Toil, labour. Also: trouble, affliction.

Originally: affliction, trial. Subsequently also: labour, toil.

figurative. = sweat, n. 9.

Labour, toil.

Labour, toil, (hard) work. Now rare (archaic or regional in later use).

The action of toiling; labour, (hard) work. Cf. swink, v. 1a. Now rare (archaic in later use).

Physical or mental work, esp. of a painful or laborious nature; great effort or exertion; hardship, suffering; (now frequently in weakened use)…

That which burdens the spirit, trouble; hence, troubled state of mind, distress, anxiety; anxious solicitude, labour, or toil. (In later use…

figurative. Hard work; violent or strenuous exertion; labour, toil; pains, trouble. archaic.

the sweat of (one's) brow (†brows), face, etc., expressing toil (cf. 9): after Genesis iii. 19.

Bodily or mental exertion particularly when difficult, painful, or compulsory; (hard) work; toil; esp. physical toil. Also personified.

Toil, labour; = swing, n.1

Labouring, labour; work, esp. manual work. Obsolete.

Intensive labour; hard or prolonged exertion which is physically or mentally taxing.

The action of working; labour, work. Obsolete. rare.

†Labour, toil (obsolete rare); esp. a determined effort to accomplish or attain something; a hard try; a struggle; a ‘go’.

Scottish. Work; labour. rare.

Associated with cark, v.1

Harassing labour, toil. Obsolete. rare.

Toil, labour, drudgery. Frequently in toil and moil (cf. to toil and moil at moil, v. 2).

Difficult or laborious work, great exertion.

That which causes weariness; †fatiguing labour, ‘trouble’ (obsolete); a fatiguing duty or performance, labour, toil.

Sweating; severe labour, such as to cause sweating. Obsolete.

? Labour, toil: cf. till, v.1 1.

physical labour or unskilled work.

Work, esp. hard work.

†(a) activity, efficaciousness (obsolete); (b) the fact or action of engaging in (hard) work; the condition of being so engaged.

figurative. Severe and close work.

Work, toil; esp. in hard yakka.

Work or study at school or college; in early use spec. mathematics. Hence gen. labour, toil.

U.S. figurative. Hard work; great (esp. non-physical) effort.