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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
toil \toil\, n. oe. toil turmoil, struggle; cf. od. tuyl labor,
   work. see toil, v.
   labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or
   mind, esp. the body.
   1913 webster

         my task of servile toil.                 --milton.
   1913 webster

         after such bloody toil, we bid good night. --shak.
   1913 webster

   note: toil is used in the formation of compounds which are
         generally of obvious signification; as, toil-strung,
         toil-wasted, toil-worn, and the like.
         1913 webster

   syn: labor; drudgery; work; exertion; occupation; employment;
        task; travail.

   usage: toil, labor, drudgery. labor implies strenuous
          exertion, but not necessary such as overtasks the
          faculties; toil denotes a severity of labor which is
          painful and exhausting; drudgery implies mean and
          degrading work, or, at least, work which wearies or
          disgusts from its minuteness or dull uniformity.
          1913 webster

                you do not know the heavy grievances,
                the toils, the labors, weary drudgeries,
                which they impose.                --southern.
          1913 webster

                how often have i blessed the coming day,
                when toil remitting lent its turn to play.
                                                  --goldsmith.
          1913 webster
see also:
toil labor drudgery 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
toil \toil\, n. f. toiles, pl., toils, nets, fr. toile cloth,
   canvas, spider web, fr. l. tela any woven stuff, a web, fr.
   texere to weave. see text, and cf. toilet.
   a net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking
   prey; -- usually in the plural.
   1913 webster

         as a numidian lion, when first caught,
         endures the toil that holds him.         --denham.
   1913 webster

         then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found.
                                                  --dryden.
   1913 webster
see also:
text toilet 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   1913 webster
see also:
toiled toiling towel 
[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
toil \toil\, v. t.
   1. to weary; to overlabor. obs. "toiled with works of war."
      --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to labor; to work; -- often with out. r.
      1913 webster

            places well toiled and husbanded.     --holland.
      1913 webster

            i toiled out my uncouth passage.    --milton.
      1913 webster
      1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
toil
     n : productive work especially physical work done for wages;
         "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" syn: labor,
          labour
     v : work hard; "she was digging away at her math homework";
         "lexicographers drudge all day long" syn: labor, labour,
          fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
see also:
labor labour fag travail grind drudge 
dig moil 
[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
124 moby thesaurus words for "toil":
   bait, be employed, birdlime, bola, burden, carry on business,
   cobweb, cramp, cripple, cumber, dig, dirty work, do business,
   donkeywork, dragnet, drive, drudge, drudgery, embarrass,
   employment, encumber, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel,
   entrap, entwine, fag, fatigue, fetter, fishhook, fly,
   follow a trade, gill net, grind, ground bait, grub, hammer,
   hammer away, hamper, hamstring, handicap, handiwork, handwork,
   have a job, hobble, hook, impede, industry, involve, jig, keep up,
   labor, lame, lariat, lasso, lick, lick of work, lime, lumber, lure,
   manual labor, meshes, moil, moonlight, muck, net, noose, peg,
   peg away, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, pound away, pound net,
   practice a profession, press down, purse seine, rat race,
   saddle with, scut work, seine, set up shop, shackle, slave,
   slavery, slog, slogging, slop, snare, snarl, sniggle, spadework,
   spinner, springe, squid, stay employed, stodge, strain, strive,
   stroke, stroke of work, sweat, tangle, task, tiresome work, toils,
   trammel, transact business, trash, travail, trawl, treadmill,
   trudge, tug, wade through, weigh down, wobbler, work, work at,
   work away, work for





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The Les Toil Big Beautiful Pin-Up Gallery
...Big girl pin-up artist Les Toil brings ALL of his gorgeous cheesecake models to the cyber..
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Welcome
...Exclusive and rare Toil portraits, alternative Toil portraits, pencil sketches, preliminary art, and general silliness.....to the official Les Toil Big, Beautiful Pin-Up Gallery. I've joyously toiled to bring you.....All new art will enter the gallery via the Toil Girl Spotlight exhibit. From there they..
http://www.lestoil.net/bbpg/welcome.html, score=91, date indexed=March 24, 2005, 8:20 am

Welcome
...Exclusive and rare Toil portraits, alternative Toil portraits, pencil sketches, preliminary art, and general silliness.....to the official Les Toil Big, Beautiful Pin-Up Gallery. I've joyously toiled to bring you.....All new art will enter the gallery via the Toil Girl Spotlight exhibit. From there they..
http://lestoil.net/bbpg/welcome.html, score=91, date indexed=March 26, 2005, 6:43 pm

Les Toil and Brian Clarke

http://www.lestoil.net/, score=82, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 8:51 pm

Toil'végétale
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you are referred to new web-side

http://www.no-toil.com/, score=54, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 7:19 am

Welcome/Bienvenido - Academia de Inglés Toil & Chat

http://www.toilchat.com.ar/, score=52, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 10:52 pm

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