moils

Noun (1)

moil (countable and uncountable, plural moils)

1. 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'

   Synonyms:

   labour, labor, toil, work

2. 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
3. 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

Noun (2)

moil (countable and uncountable, plural moils)

1. 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.
2. (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).

   Synonyms:

   overblow, scrap

3. The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

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