[f. TOIL sb.2] trans. To trap or enclose in a toil; to drive (game) into a toil; also fig. to entrap, entangle; dial. to set (a trap); cf. TILL v.1 7.
1592. Warner, Alb. Eng., VIII. xli. (1612), 199. And hath he toyled vp his game?
1621. Elsing, Debates Ho. Lords (Camden), App. 139. Seeing these poore mene toyled in this maze of affliccions.
1887. T. Hardy, Woodlanders, xlvii. He laid the trap, set it, or to use the local and better word toiled it.
Hence Toiled ppl. a., netted, trapped, snared.
1852. Jerdan, Autobiog., II. 16. The toiled bird had been liberated from its cage.
1854. Syd. Dobell, Balder, xxiii. 85. Lying close like a toiled bird that with wide eyes Is mute and strange. Ibid., xxxvii. 186. Bind him down With the strong bonds of love Naked and toiled.