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moil
[ moil ]
verb (used with object)
- Archaic. to wet or smear.
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
- intr to toil or drudge (esp in the phrase toil and moil )
noun
- toil; drudgery
- confusion; turmoil
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Derived Forms
- ˈmoiler, noun
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Other Words From
- moiler noun
- moiling·ly adverb
- un·moiled adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of moil1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of moil1
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Example Sentences
Others toil and moil all their lives long—and the very dogs are not pitiful in our days, as they were in the days of Lazarus.
The auld moil was nane so weel furnished i' the heid, but bairnies and beasts were unco' fond o' 'im.
Would he come clean through the moil, winning honor and his place among men?
He has no taste for the toil and moil of money-getting,—a refined, studious, thoughtful young man.
Ginet-moils, gennet-moil, a kind of apple ripe before others.
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