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toiling |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: toiling adj : doing arduous or unpleasant work "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps" [syn: {drudging}, {laboring}, {labouring}]
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