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verb
- 1. work hard: "men who moiled for gold"
- 2. move around in confusion or agitation: "a crowd of men and women moiled in the smoky haze"
noun
- 1. hard work; drudgery: "this night his weekly moil is at an end"
- 2. turmoil; confusion: "the moil of his intimate thoughts"
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noun. 1. : hard work : drudgery. 2. : confusion, turmoil. Did you know? Moil may mean "to work hard" but its origins are the opposite of hard; it ultimately derives from Latin mollis, meaning "soft." (Other English derivatives of mollis are emollient, mollify, and mollusk .)
noun. hard work or drudgery. confusion, turmoil, or trouble. Glassmaking. a superfluous piece of glass formed during blowing and removed in the finishing operation. Mining. a short hand tool with a polygonal point, used for breaking or prying out rock. moil. / mɔɪl / verb. to moisten or soil or become moist, soiled, etc.
1. to moisten or soil or become moist, soiled, etc. 2. (intransitive) to toil or drudge (esp in the phrase toil and moil) noun. 3. toil; drudgery. 4. confusion; turmoil.
n. 1. Hard work; toil. 2. Confusion; turmoil: "the dogs shooting past her in a moil of fur and flashing feet" (T.C. Boyle). [Middle English mollen, to soften by wetting, from Old French moillier, from Vulgar Latin *molliāre, from Latin mollia (pānis), the soft part (of bread), from neuter pl. of mollis, soft; see mel- in Indo-European roots .]
Definitions of moil. verb. work hard. synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, toil, travail. see more. verb. be agitated. synonyms: boil, churn, roil. see more.
Jun 2, 2024 · moil ( countable and uncountable, plural moils) ( glassblowing) 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.
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun moil. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Moil Definition. moils. Meanings. Synonyms. Sentences. Definition Source. Word Forms. Origin. Verb. Noun. Filter. verb. To moisten or soil. Webster's New World. To toil; drudge. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To churn about continuously. Clouds moiling in the wind. American Heritage. Similar definitions. Synonyms: dig. drudge. grind.
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