Associations to the word «Moil»

MOIL, verb. To toil, to work hard.

MOIL, verb. To churn continually.

MOIL, noun. Hard work.

MOIL, noun. Confusion, turmoil.

MOIL, noun. A spot; a defilement.

MOIL, noun. (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.

MOIL, noun. (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).

MOIL, noun. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

MOIL, verb. Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long".

MOIL, verb. Be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm".

MOIL, verb. Moisten or soil; "Her tears moiled the letter".