Moil Definition

moil
moils
verb
To moisten or soil.
Webster's New World
To toil; drudge.
Webster's New World
To churn about continuously.
Clouds moiling in the wind.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
noun
moils
Drudgery; hard work.
Webster's New World
Confusion; turmoil.
Webster's New World
A spot; a defilement.
Wiktionary

(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.

Wiktionary

(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).

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Moil

Noun

Singular:
moil
Plural:
moils

Origin of Moil

  • Middle English mollen to soften by wetting from Old French moillier from Vulgar Latin molliāre from Latin mollia (pānis) the soft part (of bread) from neuter pl. of mollis soft mel-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 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'.

    From Wiktionary

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

    From Wiktionary

Moil Sentence Examples

  • His prince, abating those points which are purely Italian or strongly tinctured with the author's personal peculiarities, prefigured the monarchs of the 16th and 17th centuries, the monarchs whose motto was L'e'tat c' est moil His doctrine of a national militia foreshadowed the system which has given strength in arms to France and Germany.

  • Did with the aged hermit toil, With their own hands in daily moil, Hard laboring rude the barren soil.

  • In what is perhaps the most important section we may probably see the origin of the possessory action of moil d'ancestor, an innovation scarcely less striking than the institution of the novel disseisin in the winter of 1166.

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