[f. TOIL v.1 + -ING2.] That toils, in various senses of the verb; struggling; laboring, laborious, hard-working.
1552. Huloet, Toylyng, tuditans.
c. 1592. Marlowe, Massacre Paris, III. ii. Sorrow seize upon my toiling soul!
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., IV. xix. 338. He … avoids a toyling and laborious industry.
1703. Rowe, Ulyss., II. i. The Labours of the toiling Hind.
1844. Longf., Sea-weed, i. Landward in his wrath he [storm-wind] scourges The toiling surges.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 108. A toiling owner of a small station.
Hence Toilingly adv., in a toiling manner.
1812. W. Tennant, Anster F., III. vi. Toilingly each bitter beadle swung … his greasy rope.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIV. 351. Toilingly he raises his body.
