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moil
I. \ˈmȯil, esp before pause or consonant ˈmȯiəl\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English moillen, from Middle French moillier, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin molliare, from Latin mollis soft — more at melt
transitive verb
1. chiefly dialect : to make wet or dirty : dampen, smear
< letters moiled with my kisses — Elizabeth B. Browning >
2. chiefly dialect : to make distraught : torment, worry
intransitive verb
1. : to work with grueling persistence : drudge, grub
< piles of earth … are evidence that here a scant hundred years ago thousands moiled for gold — F.W.Taber >
2. dialect England : to be fidgety or restless : worry
3.
a. : to be in continuous agitation : churn, swirl
< a crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze — Ralph Ellison >
< caused all the wrongs of his past life to moil up inside of him and sear his brain — True Police Cases >
b. : to become involved in discussion : chaffer, wrangle
< last week's diplomatic moiling in Europe — Life >
II. noun
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1. : hard work : drudgery, labor
< escape from the moil … and money-grubbing of ordinary life — Times Literary Supplement >
< the drab … toil and moil of a collier's existence — Harry Lauder >
2.
a. dialect England : mud, mire
b. : blemish, taint
< undefiled … by moil of printed word — F.L.Gwynn >
3.
a. : a jumble of sound or motion : uproar, turbulence
< lost in a vast moil of noise — Norman Mailer >
< the moil and brine of the sea — D.C.Peattie >
b. : a state of confusion : turmoil
< the moil of events is … unintelligible — H.B.Alexander >
III. noun
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Etymology: Irish Gaelic maol bald & Welsh moel — more at muley
dialect Britain : a hornless ox or cow
IV. noun
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Etymology: perhaps from French meule, literally, haystack, from Latin metula small cone or pyramid — more at metula
1. : excess glass left at the end of an article in contact with the blowing mechanism during the manufacture of blown glass and usually removed in finishing the article
2. : a coating of glass on the gathering iron to prevent it from scaling off into the molten glass
V. noun
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Etymology: origin unknown
: a steel bar sharpened to a point or a chisel end for hand use (as in mining) — compare gad I 1c |