[moil] 
| 1. | to work hard; drudge. |
| 2. | to whirl or churn ceaselessly; twist; eddy. |
| 3. | Archaic. to wet or smear. |
| 4. | hard work or drudgery. |
| 5. | confusion, turmoil, or trouble. |
| 6. | Glassmaking. a superfluous piece of glass formed during blowing and removed in the finishing operation. |
| 7. | Mining. a short hand tool with a polygonal point, used for breaking or prying out rock. |
| moil (moil) intr.v. moiled, moil·ing, moils
[Middle English mollen, to soften by wetting, from Old French moillier, from Vulgar Latin *molliāre, from Latin mollia (pānis), the soft part (of bread), from neuter pl. of mollis, soft; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots.] moil'er n., moil'ing·ly adv. |
