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Moil

//mɔɪl// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun

1
Synonym of Ngan'gityemerri.

Noun

1
Hard work. countable, uncountable
"I finally decided, my heart was really in my singing rather than in the drab, hardy soul- searing toil and moil of a collier's existence."
2
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. countable, uncountable
3
Confusion, turmoil. countable, uncountable
"Croft no longer saw anything clearly; he could not have said at that moment where his hands ended and the machine gun began; he was lost in a vast moil of noise out of which individual screams and shouts etched in his mind for an instant."
4
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). countable, uncountable
5
A spot; a defilement. countable, uncountable
"You'd suppose A finished generation, dead of plague, Swept outward from their graves into the sun, The moil of death upon them."

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6
The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object. countable, uncountable

Verb

1
To toil, to work hard.
"Moil not too much underground, for the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters lazy in other things.."
2
moisten or soil wordnet
3
To churn continually; to swirl. intransitive
"A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze."
4
be agitated wordnet
5
To defile or dirty. UK, transitive

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6
work hard wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molliō, *molliare, from mollis (“soft”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molliō, *molliare, from mollis (“soft”).

Etymology 3

Of unclear origin; possibly from French meule or Hebrew מוהל (mohel, “ritual circumciser”), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.

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