[f. TOIL v.1 + -ER1.] One who toils, a hard worker.

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1549.  Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. Peter, i. 2. Goodes (in getting and heaping together wherof the toylers of the world thinke themselfes fortunate).

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1580.  Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Tracasseur, a busie body, a toyler to little purpose.

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1858.  Miss Mulock, Th. ab. Wom., 86. ‘In all labour there is profit’—ay, and honour too, if the toilers could but recognise it.

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1909.  Chr. Express, 1 March, 41/2. Any toiler in the field of sociology—black or white.

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