Pronunciations
-
/mɔɪl/
Verb
To toil, to work hard.
- Examples
-
Moil not too much underground, for the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters lazy in other things..
Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
More examples (2)
Why for sluggards cark and moil?
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.
To churn continually; to swirl.
Usage- Intransitive
- Examples
-
A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze.
To defile or dirty.
Usage- UK usage
- Transitive
Noun
Hard work.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
-
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.
Confusion, turmoil.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
-
More examples (1)
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.
A spot; a defilement.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
-
You'd suppose A finished generation, dead of plague, Swept outward from their graves into the sun, The moil of death upon them.
Noun
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.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
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).
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
Verb
work hard
- Examples
-
She was digging away at her math homework
Lexicographers drudge all day long
be agitated
- Broader terms
- Examples
-
the sea was churning in the storm
moisten or soil
- Broader terms
- Examples
-
Her tears moiled the letter