hard, tiring work or labor; exhausting effort.
From Old French 'toile' meaning to stir or work hard, possibly from Latin 'tudiculare' meaning to crush or beat. It's described hard physical work since medieval times.
The word 'toil' originally meant to beat or crush things—because the hardest work in ancient times was literally pounding and crushing materials by hand!
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