moil
/mɔɪl/
moil verb: to toil, to work hard.
Verb
moil (third-person singular simple present moils, present participle moiling, simple past and past participle moiled)
- To toil, to work hard.
- Moil not too much underground, for the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters lazy in other things..1625, Francis Bacon, Of Plantations
- Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.1693, John Dryden, “Tenth Satire of Juvenal”, in Juvenal and Persius
- To churn continually; to swirl.
- A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze.1952, Ralph Ellison, chapter 23, in Invisible Man
- To defile or dirty.
Noun (1)
moil (countable and uncountable, plural moils)
- Hard work.
- 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.1928, Harry Lauder, chapter VII, in Roamin' in the Gloamin'
- Confusion, turmoil.
- 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.1948, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, Part I, Chapter 5
- A spot; a defilement.
- You'd suppose
A finished generation, dead of plague,
Swept outward from their graves into the sun,
The moil of death upon them.1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
- You'd suppose
Noun (2)
moil (countable and uncountable, plural moils)
- 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.
Proper noun capitalized: Moil
Moil
- Synonym of Ngan'gityemerri.
- Synonyms:
- Ngan'gityemerri
moil meaning in Tamil and Urdu
moil in Tamil
- கடுமையாகப் பாடுபடு, அரும்பாடுபடு, சிரமப்படு, கடும் உழைப்பு, அலைச்சல், அல்லல்
moil in Urdu
- بھگانا, گیلا کرنا, خراب کرنا, لتھیڑنا, ساننا, تر کرنا
Synonyms of moil
Forms of moil
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | moils |
| present participle | moiling |
| past participle | moiled |
| past | moiled |
| alternative form | moile |
| alternative form | moyle |
| Noun | |
| plural | moils |
Origin of moil
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”).
Of unclear origin; possibly from French meule or Hebrew מוהל (mohel, “ritual circumciser”), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.
Words formed from moil
Words that rhyme with moil
Questions about moil
- What does moil mean?
- Moil means to toil, to work hard.
- What is moil in Tamil?
- Moil in Tamil is கடுமையாகப் பாடுபடு, அரும்பாடுபடு, சிரமப்படு. See Moil meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is moil?
- Moil can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce moil?
- Moil is pronounced /mɔɪl/.
- What is the past tense of moil?
- The past tense of moil is moiled.
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