toil

Something that binds, snares, or entangles one; an entrapment.

A net for trapping game.

To labor continuously; work strenuously.

To proceed with difficulty.

Exhausting labor or effort. synonym: work.

Strife; contention.

In the toils, ensnared; captured.

To pull about; tug; drag.

To harass; weary or exhaust by toil: often used reflexively (whence later, by omission of the reflexive pronoun, the intransitive use): sometimes with out.

To labor; work; till.