Bemoil
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To soil or dirty obsolete
"Tell thou the tale: –but hadst thou not crossed me, thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell, and she under her horse; thou shouldst have heard, in how miry a place; how she was bemoiled; […]."
Example
More examples"Tell thou the tale: –but hadst thou not crossed me, thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell, and she under her horse; thou shouldst have heard, in how miry a place; how she was bemoiled; […]."
Etymology
From be- + moil, from French mouiller to wet; but compare also Old English bimolen to soil, and English mole.
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