Definition of toil Toil

/tɔjˈl/ - [toyl] - toil

We found 15 definitions of toil from 5 different sources.

What does toil mean?

Noun
toil - productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
		labor, labour
		work activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
		roping capturing cattle or horses with a lasso
		corvee unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
		donkeywork, drudgery, plodding, grind hard monotonous routine work
		elbow grease, exertion, travail, effort, sweat use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"
		hunting, hunt the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
		hackwork professional work done according to formula
		haymaking cutting grass and curing it to make hay
		manual labor, manual labour labor done with the hands
		overwork, overworking the act of working too much or too long; "he became ill from overwork"
Verb toils, toiling, toiled
toil - work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
		labor, labour, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
		do work, work arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times"

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toil (Noun)
labour, work.
toil (Noun)
trouble, strife.
toil (Noun)
A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
toil (Verb)
To labour; work.
toil (Verb)
To struggle.

toil (n.)
A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.
toil (v. i.)
To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.
toil (v. t.)
To weary; to overlabor.
toil (v. t.)
To labor; to work; -- often with out.
toil (v.)
Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.

toil
toil, n. a net or snare. [O. Fr. toile, cloth—L. tela, from texĕre, to weave.]
toil
toil, v.i. to labour: to work with fatigue.—n. labour, esp. of a fatiguing kind.—n. Toil′er.—adjs. Toil′ful, Toil′some, full of fatigue: wearisome; Toil′less.—adv. Toil′somely.—n. Toil′someness.—adj. Toil′-worn, worn out with toil. [O. Fr. touiller, to entangle; of dubious origin—prob., acc. to Skeat, from a freq. form of Old High Ger. zucchen (Ger. zucken), to twitch; cf. Old High Ger. zocchón, to pull, zogón, to tear; all derivatives from Old High Ger. zíhan (Ger. ziehen), to pull.]

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