[f. TOIL v.1 + -ED1.]
1. Exhausted with toil; worn-out, weary. arch. and dial.
1592. Wyrley, Armorie, Capitall de Buz, 144. His toyled mates do tend But how from death they may themselues defend.
1614. W. B., Philosopher’s Banquet (ed. 2), A iij. Tedious howres and toyled braines.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., xxv. 203. When the toyld Cater home them to the Kitchen brings, The Cooke doth cast them out, as most vnsauory things.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, II. 466. Ev’ry buckler’s thong Shall sweat on the toil’d bosom.
Comb. 1895. J. L. Maxwell, W. B. Thomson, iv. 41. A pale, toiled-looking young mother.
† 2. Of plants or soil: Subjected to or improved by cultivation, tilled, cultivated. Obs.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, III. lix. 399. There be two sortes of Hoppes, the manured or toyled Hop, and the wilde hedge Hoppe.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 278. Cala … loueth to grow in toiled and ploughed grounds.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 181. Sowne in a well toyled ground.
Toiled ppl. a.2: see TOIL v.2
