toilworn

[ toil-wawrn, -wohrn ]

adjective

1. worn worn by toil:

   toilworn hands.

2. worn worn out or aged by toil:

   a toilworn farmer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of toilworn¹

First recorded in 1745–55; toil ¹ + worn

Example Sentences

First, the toilworn Craftsman that with earth-made Implement laboriously conquers the Earth, and makes her man's.

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Hitherto his life had been poor and toilworn; but otherwise not ungenial, and, with all its distresses, by no means unhappy.

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First the toilworn Craftsman that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's.

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She was evidently a Scotch peasant girl, as indicated by the clothes she wore and by her hard, toilworn hands.

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And if their hands were toilworn and their clothes very old-fashioned, Mary did not care.

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