Hypertext Webster Gateway: "toiling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Toil \Toil\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Toiled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Toiling}.] [OE. toilen to pull about, to toil; of uncertain
origin; cf. OD. teulen, tuylen, to labor, till, or OF.
tooillier, toailler, to wash, rub (cf. {Towel}); or perhaps
ultimately from the same root as E. tug.]
To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind,
especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or
duration; to labor; to work.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
toiling
adj : doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the
bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling
coal miners in the black deeps" [syn: {drudging}, {laboring},
{labouring}]
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