Moil

Quick meaning: Moil is a verb meaning To toil, to work hard.

Meaning

To toil, to work hard.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To churn continually; to swirl.
2. (UK, transitive) To defile or dirty.
3. Hard work.
4. Confusion, turmoil.
5. A spot; a defilement.
6. (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.
7. (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).

Example Sentences

Why for sluggards cark and moil?

Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.

A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze.

Moil not too much underground, for the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters lazy in other things.

Word Forms

• moils
• moiling
• moiled
• moile

Synonyms for moil

Depending on context, synonyms include labour, labor, toil, work, overblow, scrap.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include toil, travail, labour, roil, churn, drudge.

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