toiling

toiling

1. present participle and gerund of toil

toiling (plural toilings)

1. Hard work.
   • 2001, Bonnie Gulan, The Great Bible Dig: Excavation of the Scriptures, page 367:

     Can we perceive a person's works as the effects of miracles or as the results of blessings or as the effects of their own mortal toilings?

• toilinge, toylinge, tolyynge

From toilen +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtui̯linɡ/, /ˈtɔi̯linɡ/

toiling

1. (rare) A fight; strife (deadly discord between two parties)
2. (rare) The manufacture of leather using a person's teeth to draw on it.
3. (rare, law) The initiation of a lawsuit.

• English: toiling

• “toiling(e, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.