What does toiling mean?

Definitions for toiling
toil·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. drudging, laboring, labouring, toilingadjective

    doing arduous or unpleasant work

    "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"

Webster Dictionary

  1. Toiling

    of Toil

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of toiling in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of toiling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of toiling in a Sentence

  1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

    The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

  2. William Graham Sumner:

    Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.

  3. William Graham Sumner:

    Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.

  4. Winston Churchill:

    The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

  5. Mukut Singh:

    We are trying to be weary of Covid but we don't have an option -- it is a question of life and death, we are the ones who have provided food, milk, vegetables when the whole country was in lockdown -- we were still toiling in the fields.

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    used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner
    • A. butch
    • B. appellative
    • C. eminent
    • D. ravening

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