moil

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To toil, to work hard.

   • Moil not too much underground, for the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters lazy in other things..
   • Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
   • Why for sluggards cark and moil?
2. 2

   To churn continually

   To churn continually; to swirl.

   • A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze.
3. 3

   To defile or dirty.

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   1. 4

      Hard work.

      • I finally decided, my heart was really in my singing rather than in the drab, hardy soul- searing toil and moil of a collier's existence.
   2. 5

      Confusion, turmoil.

      • Croft no longer saw anything clearly; he could not have said at that moment where his hands ended and the machine gun began; he was lost in a vast moil of noise out of which individual screams and shouts etched in his mind for an instant.
   3. 6

      A spot

      A spot; a defilement.

      • You'd suppose A finished generation, dead of plague, Swept outward from their graves into the sun, The moil of death upon them.
   4. 7

      The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after…

      The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.

   5. 8

      The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is…

      The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).

   6. 9

      The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

   7. 10

      Synonym of Ngan'gityemerri.

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