Usually means: Laborious effort; work hard physically.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. toil: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. toil: Merriam-Webster
  3. toil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. toil, toil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. toil: Collins English Dictionary
  6. toil: Vocabulary.com
  7. Toil, toil, toil: Wordnik
  8. toil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. TOIL, toil: Wiktionary
  10. toil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. toil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. toil: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. toil: Dictionary.com
  14. toil (1), toil (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. toil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Toil (Shlonsky poem), Toil (album), Toil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Toil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. toil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. toil: Rhymezone
  20. toil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. toil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. T.O.I.L: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. toil: FreeDictionary.org
  24. toil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. toil: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. toil: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. toil: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TOIL: Acronym Finder
  2. toil: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)
  2. TOIL: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Toil: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
noun:  Trouble, strife.
noun:  (usually in the plural) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.
verb:  (intransitive) To labour; work.
verb:  (intransitive) To struggle.
verb:  (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
verb:  (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.
noun:  (UK, employment) Initialism of time off in lieu (of monetary compensation for overtime).

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