Toil: alternatives and connections

An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.

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The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.

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An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort…

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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.

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To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for s…

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of Hunt

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To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.

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of Overwork

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of Plod

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of Rope

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The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.

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of Sweat

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Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

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To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

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To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

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To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.

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A knot or coarse part in cloth.

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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

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productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.

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Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

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