The Clue
Work like a horse (4 letter answer)
The Answer
TOIL
Tags
Notes
The answer TOIL is seen frequently, appearing about once every 130 puzzles.
Related Clues
Drudge
Drudgery
Exertion
Grind
Labor
Plod
Slave
Sweat
"___ and trouble"
A Churchill offering
Elbow grease
Emulate Tillie
Great exertion
Hard labor
Hard work
Helot's lot
Peg away
Plug away
Slave away
" . . . ___ and trouble": Shak.
Trouble's partner
Work hard
Ditch-digging, e.g.
"Double, double ___ and trouble"
"Double, double, ___ and trouble"
Trouble's partner, in Shakespeare
Work like Tillie?
It might make you a sweater
Oft-forgotten member of a Churchill quartet
Definition
TOIL as a noun:
1. (labor, labour, toil) = productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
TOIL as a verb:
1. (labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil) = work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"