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moil

Pronunciation: /mɔɪl/

The English word “moil” has 9 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To toil, to work hard.
  2. To churn continually; to swirl.
  3. To defile or dirty.

noun

  1. Hard work.
  2. Confusion, turmoil.
  3. A spot; a defilement.
  4. 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.
  5. 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).
  6. The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

Etymology

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”).

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