Piled vs Toiled - What's the difference?
piled | toiled |
(pile)
(iron manufacturing) Formed from a pile or fagot.
Having a pile or point; pointed.
* Chapman
Having a pile or nap.
* L. Barry (1611)
(toil)
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labour, work
* 1908:
trouble, strife
A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
* Denham
* Dryden
To labour; work.
To struggle.
To work (something); often with out .
* Holland
* Milton
To weary through excessive labour.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between piled and toiled
is that piled is (pile) while toiled is (toil).As an adjective piled
is (iron manufacturing) formed from a pile or fagot.piled
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- piled iron
- Magus threw a spear well piled .
- Three-piled velvet.
Anagrams
*toiled
English
Verb
(head)toil
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- ...he set to work again and made the snow fly in all directions around him. After some further toil his efforts were rewarded, and a very shabby door-mat lay exposed to view.
- As a Numidian lion, when first caught, / Endures the toil that holds him.
- Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found.
Verb
(en verb)- places well toiled and husbanded
- [I] toiled out my uncouth passage.
- toiled with works of war
