moil - What does it mean?
'moil' hits on the web
You may have been searching for a specific social media @moil profile or the tag #moil
Definition of 'moil'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; from the Proto-Indo-European root 'mel-', 'soft'.
Verb
( en-verb)
To toil, to work hard.
* Francis Bacon
- Moil not too much under ground.
* Dryden
- Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
* {{quote-book|passage=There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
|author=Robert W. Service
|title=( The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses)
|chapter=( The Cremation of Sam McGee)
|year=1907}}
To churn continually.
Noun
Hard work.
Confusion, turmoil.
A spot; a defilement.
* (rfdate) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
- The moil of death upon them.
Synonyms
* (hard work) labour, labor; toil; work
Etymology 2
From (etyl) 'mohel', ???? (ritual circumciser), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.
Alternative forms
* moile, moyle
Noun
( en-noun)
(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.
(glassblowing|blow molding) 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).
(glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
Synonyms
* (excess glass) overblow (blow molding), scrap
See also
* gather
* mold seam
* pontil mark
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l)
----
Similar to 'moil'mill, maul, mal, meal, mail, mahal, mel, mohel, moll, mull, mall, mil, mol, mell, myall, mewl, miaul, moel, meawl
|
