单词 | toiled |
释义 | toiledadj.1 1. Exhausted with toil; worn-out, weary. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > esp. through labour forswunka1250 forwroughtc1400 forlaboured1483 broken1490 forespent1563 fortoiled1567 toiled1574 overtoiled?1577 over-laboured1579 back-broken1603 moiled1618 swinked1637 overwrought1648 overtaxed1650 toil-worn1752 used up1823 overworked1830 beat1832 dead-beaten1854 1574 R. Robinson Reward of Wickednesse sig. C4 And with these wordes cast almost on the shore, the woefull wretch with toyled wearye bones. 1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 144 His toyled mates do tend But how from death they may themselues defend. 1614 W. B. in tr. Philosophers Banquet (ed. 2) To Rdr. sig. A3 Tedious howres and toyled braines. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxv. 109 When the toyld Cater home them to the Kitchen brings, The Cooke doth cast them out, as most vnsauory things. 1684 J. Harington tr. Horace Odes & Epodon ii. vii. 37 Couch thy toiled Limbs..Beneath my Laurel -branch. 1701 E. Sherburne tr. Seneca Phædra & Hippolytus iv. i, in tr. Seneca Trag. 192 The toiled Waves appear, Prest with a Burthen which they groan to bear. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 466 Ev'ry buckler's thong Shall sweat on the toil'd bosom. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. ii. 16 Execution or legislation, arrangement or detail, from their nerveless fingers all drops undone; all lights at last on the toiled shoulders of an august Representative Body. 1904 W. V. Moody Fire-Bringer i. 21 His porches were o'erthrown, His altar out, and round his faded peak The toilèd Cyclops, bowing huge and dim, Uncouthly mourned. 1931 I. Macpherson Shepherd's Cal. xv. 236 When his mother spoke of the deadliness of his toiled life he turned her off with a laugh. 2011 M. J. Stoddard Twilight Legacies: Sixth Eye xii. 70 The Admiral folded his hands, his gnarled fingers displayed the sinister cancer that conquered his toiled spirit. 2. Of plants or soil: subjected to or improved by cultivation, tilled, cultivated. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > cultivated wroughtOE subact?1440 laboured1470 tilled1546 well-cultured1555 well-laboured1571 husbanded1578 toiled1578 well-husbanded1581 cultive1611 improved1617 cultivated1622 well-cultivated1650 manured1746 well-farmed1770 reduced1794 farmed1800 tillaged1854 tilthed1866 tame1887 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lix. 399 There be two sortes of Hoppes, the manured or toyled Hop, and the wilde hedge Hoppe. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xxvi. 234 Sowen in a well toiled ground. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvii. vii. 278 Cala..loveth to grow in toiled and ploughed grounds. 1914 M. Barranco Mexico (1915) (Preface) p. vi Their world has been their toiled soil and has had for its limits the rising and setting of the sun! 1991 T. Nevin Simone Weil ii. 44 Was it not..from him that she learned the prejudice that learning belongs to the scions of the toiled land? 2008 New Straits (Malaysia) Times (Nexis) 6 July 32 As he beams with pride, Roslan motions towards the rows of toiled earth dotted with budding plants. CompoundsΚΠ 1895 J. L. Maxwell Life W. B. Thomson iv. 41 A pale, toiled-looking young mother. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † toiledadj.2 Obsolete. Of an animal, prey, etc.: netted, trapped, snared. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [adjective] > snared or trapped ensnared1643 lured1720 toiled1802 lassoed1881 1802 J. Baillie Ethwald: Pt. Second iii. i, in Series Plays II. 159 But thick the aimed weapons round him fly, Like huntsmen's arrows round the toiled boar. 1841 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 158/2 Sometimes, like a toiled lion, he chafed. 1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiii. 85 Lying close like a toiled bird, that with wide eyes Is mute and strange. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.11574adj.21802 |
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