Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - toil
Toil
toil
v. & n. --v.intr. 1 work laboriously or incessantly. 2 make slow painful progress (toiled along the path). --n. prolonged or intensive labour; drudgery. Phrases and idioms toil-worn worn or worn out by toil. Derivatives toiler n. Etymology: ME f. AF toiler (v.), toil (n.), dispute, OF tooilier, tooil, f. L tudiculare stir about f. tudicula machine for bruising olives, rel. to tundere beat
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Anglo-French toyl, from ~ler Date: 14th century 1. archaic struggle, battle, laborious effort, long strenuous fatiguing labor, see: work ~ful adjective ~fully adverb II. verb see: contusion Date: 14th century intransitive verb to work hard and long, to proceed with laborious effort ; plod, transitive verb overwork, to get or accomplish with great effort, ~er noun III. noun see: subtle Date: circa 1529 a net to trap game, something by which one is held fast or inextricably involved ; snare, trap ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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