moil
Plural: moils
Verb
Verb Forms: moiled, moiling, moils
- To work hard and diligently, often laboriously.
- work hard
- be agitated
- moisten or soil
- "Her tears moiled the letter"
- To toil, to work hard.
- To churn continually; to swirl.
- To defile or dirty.
Noun
- Hard work.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- A spot; a defilement.
- 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.
- 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).
- The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
Examples
- Some players moil over every possible move, while others play impulsively.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
boil, churn, dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, roil, toil, travail, overblow, scrap, work
Scrabble Score: 6
moil: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmoil: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
moil: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary