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out-ˈtoil, v.
[out- 15 b, 18.]
1. trans. To exhaust or weary out with toil.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 506 Because he would thereby vexe, out-toile consume and waste his poore subjects. 1610― Camden's Brit. ii. 130 His souldiers out-toyled with travailing. 1676Otway Don Carlos iii. (1736) 42 Since my griefs cowards are, and dare not kill, I'll try to vanquish and out-toil the Ill.
2. To surpass in toiling or labouring.
1603Breton Dignitie of Man (1879) 14/2 In labour the Oxe will out-toile him. 1806H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow I. 196 He hired himself to a carpenter, and out-toiled all his competitors. |