moil /mɔɪl/noun 6verb 3forms 4 noun6 •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 •Confusion, turmoil. •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). •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 •The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object. verb3 •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 •To churn continually; to swirl.A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze. — 1952 •(UK) To defile or dirty. formsmoiled · moiling · moileth · moils
