Definition of "toil-worn" [toil-worn]

• Exhausted or worn out with toil.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Then he studied the deep-lined face of the toil-worn woman before him, remembered her soups and loaves of new baking, and felt spring up in him the warmest gratitude and philanthropy."
• "He saw that her toil-worn, weather-exposed hands were like a man's, callused, large-knuckled, and gnarled, and that her stockingless feet were thrust into heavy man's brogans."
• "She was brown, small and toil-worn, and in one arm lay the corpse of a dark baby."