单词 | toiling |
释义 | toilingn.1 The action of toil v.1 (in various senses); an instance of this.In quot. c1600: the working of leather by pulling it with one's teeth. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [noun] fightc893 fighting?c1225 battlingc1300 armsc1325 toilc1330 toilingc1330 befighting1489 fielding1526 combating1594 preliation1640 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > action of wrestling?c1225 travailingc1330 tewing1394 labouringc1400 sweatingc1430 toiling1549 moiling1565 carking1583 allaboration1727 fagging1777 bullocking1888 schlepping1937 the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling drawingc1300 draughta1398 pullinga1425 draggingc1440 halingc1440 lugging?a1500 attraction1578 toilingc1600 trainage1611 hale1615 traction1615 hauling1626 trail1674 tracting1780 haulage1826 pull1833 drawal1936 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 6083 Ac on hors in þis toiling Was brouȝt Sornigrex þe king. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Phil. i. f. iiiv To be losed frome the troublous toylynges of thys lyfe. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. iv. 7/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I When their toiling and drudgerie could not please them. c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) l. 753 His syre a soutere, y-suled in grees, His teeþ wiþ toylinge of leþer tatered as a sawe. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 26 He..resolvs to give over toyling. 1691 E. Taylor tr. J. Behmen Threefold Life xvii. 312 Distrustful carking and toiling. 1716 J. Willison Treat. conc. Sanctifying Lord's Day 60 It did not tend to the Rest or Refreshing of the Body, but rather to the Toiling of it. ?1765 T. Hull Spanish Lady i. sig. B.2 Pleasure rewards our Toiling. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. v. 52/1 The Day of man's Existence..with all its sick toilings. 1895 Athenæum 9 Mar. 307/3 The traveller..must make up his mind to..slow toiling along miserable..roads. 1924 B. Vanzetti Let. 15 Sept. in N. Sacco & B. Vanzetti Lett. (1997) ii. i. 129 Cowardized by thousands of years of slavery, servilism, bestial toiling, sordity, poverty..and worst of all, by honors. 1991 N. Wyn Ellis John Major ii. 81 People see only the results and not the dedicated years of learning and toiling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † toilingn.2 Obsolete. rare. Netting made from thin cord. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > folding sheep > fold or pen > materials for fold-dike1437 fold-stakec1475 wreath1495 toiling1805 fold-shore1811 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > with open texture > net or mesh netOE network1530 netting1587 meshing1615 mesh1725 toiling1805 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 675 A sort of net~work, formed of small cord, called toiling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2018). toilingadj. That toils (in various senses); struggling; labouring, hard-working. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > toiling swinking?c1225 travailinga1398 drudging1548 toiling1552 toilsome1566 toilful1596 sweaty1603 droiling1607 carkingc1620 laboriferous1656 fagging1665 moiling1692 tewing1855 maulinga1864 bullocking1900 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Toylyng, tuditans. a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. D2 Sorrow seaze vpon my toyling soule. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. xix. 338 He..avoids a toyling and laborious industry. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 79 No toiling Teams from Harvest-labour come So late at Night, so heavy laden home. View more context for this quotation 1706 N. Rowe Ulysses ii. i The Labours of the toiling Hind. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 450 An art That toiling ages have but just matured. 1844 H. W. Longfellow Seaweed i Landward in his wrath he [sc. the storm-wind] scourges The toiling surges. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 108 A toiling owner of a small station. 1931 J. Devaney Earth Kindred 31 Two by two in a toiling line, Lumbering bolly-gum, box, and pine. 1951 W. Lewis Rotting Hill Foreword p. ix The toiling majority naturally do not discuss ‘Welfare States’. 2009 Wire Apr. 65/4 A groaning chorus of (presumably) toiling labourers in the background. Derivatives ˈtoilingly adv. in a toiling manner; laboriously. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adverb] > laboriously travailouslya1382 laboursomely1552 laboriously?1611 toilsomely1614 moilingly1621 operosely1668 operously1668 moliminously1678 toilingly1731 toilfully1820 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Turmoilingly, toilingly. 1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 351 Toilingly he raises his body. 1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Nov. 1275/5 A toilingly orthodox Marxist account of photography's democratic and industrial origins. 2002 I. Craciun tr. T. Z. Latcu in M. McLoughlin & J. Pinnock Mary for Earth & Heaven v. 46 When He was toilingly ascending to Golgotha, You followed Him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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