adjective. ['ˈtɔɪlɪŋ'] doing arduous or unpleasant work.
1. Verb, gerund or present participle Other attorneys head for public service, toiling as public defenders and possibly aspiring to becoming a judge.
1. The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Good Poems for Hard Times
