toiling

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toiling - 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]

toiling - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  toiling
      adj 1: doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants";
             "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton";
             "toiling coal miners in the black deeps" [syn:
             drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling]