toilworn

[toil-wawrn, -wohrn]

adjective

Origin of toilworn

First recorded in 1745–55; toil¹ + worn

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First, the toilworn Craftsman that with earth-made Implement laboriously conquers the Earth, and makes her man's.
Sartor Resartus
Thomas Carlyle
First, the toilworn craftsman who with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the Earth, and makes her man's.
Practical Ethics
William DeWitt Hyde
First the toilworn Craftsman that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's.
The Glory of English Prose
Stephen Coleridge
Hitherto his life had been poor and toilworn; but otherwise not ungenial, and, with all its distresses, by no means unhappy.
Life of Robert Burns
Thomas Carlyle
And if their hands were toilworn and their clothes very old-fashioned, Mary did not care.
Dolly's College Experiences
Mabel Cronise Jones