Moil

Pronunciation

• Homophones: mohel
• Rhymes: -ɔɪl

From Middle English mollen ("to soften by wetting"), from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Latin molla panis ("soft part of bread"), from mollis ("soft"); from the Proto-Indo-European root 'mel-', 'soft'.

Full definition of moil

Verb

1. To toil, to work hard.
• Francis BaconMoil not too much under ground.
• DrydenNow he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
• 1907, Robert W. Service, Chapter , 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.
2. To churn continually.

Noun

1. Hard work.
2. Confusion, turmoil.
3. A spot; a defilement.
• unknown date Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe moil of death upon them.

Synonyms

• (hard work) labour, labor; toil; work

From Hebrew 'mohel', מוהל (ritual circumciser), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.

Alternative forms

• moile, moyle

Noun

1. (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.
2. (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).
3. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

Synonyms

• (excess glass) overblow (blow molding), scrap

Anagrams

• limo, Milo, milo