Definitions for toil

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Spelling: [toil]

IPA: /tɔɪl/

Toil is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in toil (ilot).

Definitions for toil

noun

1. hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
2. a laborious task.
3. Archaic. battle; strife; struggle.
4. 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.
5. Usually, toils. trap; snare:
6. Archaic. any snare or trap for wild beasts.

verb (used with object)

1. to accomplish or produce by toil.

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously:
2. to move or travel with difficulty, weariness, or pain.

Origin of toil

1250-1300; Middle English toile (noun), toilen (v.) Anglo-French toil contention, toiler to contend Latin tudiculāre to stir up, beat, verbal derivative of tudicula machine for crushing olive

Examples for toil

To be sure, the wage was infinitesimal, while the toil was body-breaking soul-breaking.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

In the years 1914-18, women flooded into the workplace to take on the toil of men conscripted to fight.

What they have taken in hand to do seems worth toil, danger, and life itself.

It asserts that we have the right to choice of our own work and to the reward of our own toil.

He did not find that easy, or to be done in a moment without pain or toil.

In each generation, with toil and tears, we have had to earn our heritage again.

But football is a game in which a moment of magic can undo an hour of toil.

These early British settlers soon established tobacco then sugar cane plantations and started importing workers to toil on them.

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?