Word.ws English Dictionary

noyl

noyl is the archaic form of noil.

Meaning of noil

Noun

noil (countable and uncountable, plural noils)

  1. A short fibre left over from combing wool or spinning silk during the preparation of textile yarns.
    • The silk noil was slightly nubby with random flecks in an off-white colour.

Forms of noyl

pluralnoyls

Questions about noyl

What is noyl the archaic form of?
Noyl is the archaic form of noil.

Words near noyl in the dictionary

  1. noyed
  2. Noyer
  3. noyers
  4. Noyes
  5. noying
  6. noyl
  7. noyls
  8. noyment
  9. noynoying
  10. Noyola
  11. Noyolas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: noyl (page history and authors); noil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “noyl.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/noyl. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.