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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024toil1 /tɔɪl/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- hard or exhausting work.
v. [no object] - to work or labor with great difficulty:to toil on the project night and day.
- to move with great effort:to toil up a hill.
toil•er, n. [countable] toil•some, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024toil1 (toil),USA pronunciation n. - hard and continuous work;
exhausting labor or effort. - a laborious task.
- [Archaic.]battle;
strife;
struggle.
v.i. - to engage in hard and continuous work;
labor arduously:to toil in the fields. - to move or travel with difficulty, weariness, or pain.
v.t. - to accomplish or produce by toil.
- Latin tudiculāre to stir up, beat, verb, verbal derivative of tudicula machine for crushing olives, equivalent. to tudi- (stem of tundere to beat) + -cula -cule2
- Anglo-French toil contention, toiler to contend
- Middle English toile (noun, nominal), toilen (verb, verbal) 1250–1300
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged exertion, travail, pains. See work.
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged strive, moil.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged indolence, sloth.
toil2 (toil),USA pronunciation n. - Usually, toils. a net or series of nets in which game known to be in the area is trapped or into which game outside of the area is driven.
- Usually, toils. trap;
snare:to be caught in the toils of a gigantic criminal conspiracy. - [Archaic.]any snare or trap for wild beasts.
- Latin tēla web
- French toile
- 1520–30
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: toil /tɔɪl/ n - hard or exhausting work
vb - (intransitive) to labour
- (intransitive) to progress with slow painful movements
Etymology: 13th Century: from Anglo-French toiler to struggle, from Old French toeillier to confuse, from Latin tudiculāre to stir, from tudicula machine for bruising olives, from tudes a hammer, from tundere to beatˈtoiler n toil /tɔɪl/ n - (often plural) a net or snare
- archaic a trap for wild beasts
Etymology: 16th Century: from Old French toile, from Latin tēla loom |