1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. Peter, i. 2. Goodes (in getting and heaping together wherof the toylers of the world thinke themselfes fortunate).
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Tracasseur, a busie body, a toyler to little purpose.
1858. Miss Mulock, Th. ab. Wom., 86. ‘In all labour there is profit’—ay, and honour too, if the toilers could but recognise it.
1909. Chr. Express, 1 March, 41/2. Any toiler in the field of sociology—black or white.
