Associations to the word «Toil»

Wiktionary

TOIL, noun. Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature
TOIL, noun. Trouble, strife
TOIL, noun. A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
TOIL, verb. (intransitive) To labour; work.
TOIL, verb. (intransitive) To struggle.
TOIL, verb. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
TOIL, verb. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.
TOIL, noun. (UK) (employment) Initialism of time off in lieu.
TOIL AND MOIL, verb. To work hard; to drudge; to toil, to moil

Dictionary definition

TOIL, noun. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill".
TOIL, verb. Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats