v. Obs. Also 7 betoyl. [f. BE- + TOIL sb. and v.] trans. To worry or exercise with toil. Hence Betoiled ppl. a.
1622. Rowlands, Good Newes & Bad, 36. This is better farre then scurvy wooing, Betoyl’d about a wife, and cannot get her.
a. 1683. Evelyn, Hist. Relig. (1850), I. 243. Why, then, do we any longer perplex and betoil ourselves in macerating studies?
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. I. IV. iii. Poor Lackalls, all betoiled, besoiled, encrusted into dim defacement.
