Toiling
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.
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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