entoil

From en- +‎ toil.

entoil (third-person singular simple present entoils, present participle entoiling, simple past and past participle entoiled)

1. To capture with, or as if with, toils or nets; to ensnare or catch out.
   • 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XXXII, page 99:

     It seem'd he never, never could redeem, / From such a stedfast spell his lady's eyes; / So mus'd awhile, entoiled in woofed phantasies.

• “entoil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Lo-t'ien, lionet, lone it