Toil
Toil , noun
[French toiles, pl., toils, nets, from toile cloth, canvas, spider web, from Latin tela any woven stuff, a web, from texere to weave. See Text, and compare Toilet.]
A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.
As a Numidian lion, when first caught,
Endures the toil that holds him.
Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found.
Toil , intransitive verb
[Old English toilen to pull about, to toil; of uncertain origin; compare OD. teulen, tuylen, to labor, till, or Old French tooillier, toailler, to wash, rub (compare Towel); or perhaps ultimately from the same root as English tug.]
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 , transitive verb
1.
To weary; to overlabor. [Obsolete]
Toiled with works of war.
2.
To labor; to work; -- often with out. [Rare]
Places well toiled and husbanded.
[I] toiled out my uncouth passage.
Toil , noun
[Old English toil turmoil, struggle; compare OD. tuyl labor, work. See Toil, v.]
Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.
My task of servile toil.
After such bloody toil, we bid good night.
You do not know the heavy grievances,
The toils, the labors, weary drudgeries,
Which they impose.
How often have I blessed the coming day,
When toil remitting lent its turn to play.
Toil is used in the formation of compounds which are generally of obvious signification; as, toil-strung, toil-wasted, toil-worn, and the like.