▪ I. toiling, n. ? Obs. rare.
(ˈtɔɪlɪŋ)
[f. toil n.2 + -ing1; cf. netting n.2]
(See quot.)
| 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 675 A sort of net⁓work, formed of small cord, called toiling. |
▪ II. ˈtoiling, vbl. n.
[f. toil v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of toil v.1 in various senses; struggling; tugging; labouring, working hard.
| c 1330 Arth. & Merl. (Kölbing) 6083 Ac on hors in þis toiling Was brouȝt Sornigrex þe king. c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 753 His syre a soutere y-suled in grees, His teeþ wiþ toylinge of leþer tetered as a sawe. 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Phil. i. 3 b, To be losed frome the troublous toylynges of thys lyfe. 1587 Harrison England i. iv. in Holinshed I. 7/2 When their toiling and drudgerie could not please them. 1644 Milton Areop. (Arb.) 63 He..resolvs to give over toyling. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. v, The Day of Man's Existence..with all its sick toilings. 1895 Athenæum 9 Mar. 307/3 The traveller..must make up his mind to..slow toiling along miserable..roads. |
▪ III. ˈtoiling, ppl. a.
[f. toil v.1 + -ing2.]
That toils, in various senses of the verb; struggling; labouring, laborious, hard-working.
| 1552 Huloet, Toylyng, tuditans. c 1592 Marlowe Massacre Paris iii. ii, Sorrow seize upon my toiling soul! 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. xix. 338 He..avoids a toyling and laborious industry. 1703 Rowe Ulyss. ii. i, The Labours of the toiling Hind. 1844 Longfellow Sea-weed i, Landward in his wrath he [storm-wind] scourges The toiling surges. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 108 A toiling owner of a small station. |
Hence ˈtoilingly adv., in a toiling manner.
| 1812 W. Tennant Anster F. iii. vi, Toilingly each bitter beadle swung..his greasy rope. 1828 Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 351 Toilingly he raises his body. |