TOILING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toiling mean? 

• TOILING (adjective)
  The adjective TOILING has 1 sense:

1. doing arduous or unpleasant work

  Familiarity information: TOILING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOILING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Doing arduous or unpleasant work

Synonyms:

drudging; laboring; labouring; toiling

Context example:

toiling coal miners in the black deeps

Similar:

busy (actively or fully engaged or occupied)

 Context examples 

And then she would be up on her feet and toiling hard as ever.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Two million of your children are toiling to-day in this trader-oligarchy of the United States.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You are always labouring and toiling, exposed to every risk and hardship.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

White Fang had seen the camp-dogs toiling in the harness, so that he did not resent overmuch the first placing of the harness upon himself.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Close to Hand Cross we passed the Royal Brighton stage, which had left at half-past seven, dragging heavily up the slope, and its passengers, toiling along through the dust behind, gave us a cheer as we whirled by.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Did a subject interest her, was there space in it for either romance or imagination, she would fly through it with her subtle, active mind, leaving her two fellow-students and even her teacher toiling behind her.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Long miles of road then opened out before my mind; and, toiling on, I saw a ragged way-worn boy, forsaken and neglected, who should come to call even the heart now beating against mine, his own.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had followed the trail of his fleeing people for eleven days, and his pursuit had been in itself a flight; for behind him he knew full well were the dreaded Russians, toiling through the swampy lowlands and over the steep divides, bent on no less than the extermination of all his people.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)