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Definition moil

Etymology 1

From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molli?, *molliare, from mollis (“soft”).

Verb

moil (third-person singular simple present moils, present participle moiling, simple past and past participle moiled)

1. To toil, to work hard.
2. (intransitive) To churn continually; to swirl.
3. (Britain, transitive) To defile or dirty.

Noun

moil (countable and uncountable, plural moils)

1. Hard work.
2. Confusion, turmoil.
3. A spot; a defilement.

Etymology 2

From Hebrew 'mohel', ???? (ritual circumciser), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.

Noun

moil (plural moils)

1. (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.
2. (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).
3. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

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