toil

[toil]

Toil is another word for work. You toil as a customer service rep all day, but you'd prefer to work as a rock goddess. Unfortunately, there weren't many ads in the employment section for goddesses rock or otherwise.

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A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.

Noun
productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

Verb
work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

n.
A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.

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.

v. t.
To weary; to overlabor.

v. t.
To labor; to work; -- often with out.

v.
Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.

Toil

Toil , n. [F. toiles, pl., toils, nets, fr. toile cloth, canvas, spider web, fr. L. tela any woven stuff, a web, fr. texere to weave. See Text, and cf. 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

Toil, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toiled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Toiling.] [OE. toilen to pull about, to toil; of uncertain origin; cf. OD. teulen, tuylen, to labor, till, or OF. tooillier, toailler, to wash, rub (cf. Towel); or perhaps ultimately from the same root as E. 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

Toil, v. t. 1. To weary; to overlabor. [Obs.] "Toiled with works of war." Shak. 2. To labor; to work; -- often with out. [R.]

Places well toiled and husbanded.

[I] toiled out my uncouth passage.

Toil

Toil , n. [OE. toil turmoil, struggle; cf. 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.

&hand; Toil is used in the formation of compounds which are generally of obvious signification; as, toil-strung, toil-wasted, toil-worn, and the like. Syn. -- Labor; drudgery; work; exertion; occupation; employment; task; travail. -- Toil, Labor, Drudgery. Labor implies strenuous exertion, but not necessary such as overtasks the faculties; toil denotes a severity of labor which is painful and exhausting; drudgery implies mean and degrading work, or, at least, work which wearies or disgusts from its minuteness or dull uniformity.

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.

A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.

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.

To weary; to overlabor.

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Usage Examples

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of one's family and friends and lastly, the solid cash.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.