Toil


noun
1.
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
2.
a laborious task.
3.
Archaic. battle; strife; struggle.
verb (used without object)
4.
to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously:
to toil in the fields.
5.
to move or travel with difficulty, weariness, or pain.
verb (used with object)
6.
to accomplish or produce by toil.
noun
1.
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.
2.
Usually, toils. trap; snare:
to be caught in the toils of a gigantic criminal conspiracy.
3.
Archaic. any snare or trap for wild beasts.
noun
1.
hard or exhausting work
2.
an obsolete word for strife
verb
3.
(intransitive) to labour
4.
(intransitive) to progress with slow painful movements: to toil up a hill
5.
(transitive) (archaic) to achieve by toil
noun
1.
(often pl) a net or snare: the toils of fortune had ensnared him
2.
(archaic) a trap for wild beasts

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