toil
/tɔɪl/ noun C2- Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
- Trouble, strife.
- A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.
Plural toils
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It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the profit.
While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat; and when I begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food.
He saw every step which I took to draw my toils round him.
In the first place, I was four years making the tools I possess, and have been two years scraping and digging out earth, hard as granite itself; then what toil and fatigue has it not been to remove huge stones I should once have deemed impossible to loosen.
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