Definitions for moil

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Spelling: [moil]
IPA: /mɔɪl/

Moil is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in moil (ilmo).

Definitions for moil

noun

  1. hard work or drudgery.
  2. confusion, turmoil, or trouble.
  3. Glassmaking. a superfluous piece of glass formed during blowing and removed in the finishing operation.
  4. Mining. a short hand tool with a polygonal point, used for breaking or prying out rock.

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to wet or smear.

verb (used without object)

  1. to work hard; drudge.
  2. to whirl or churn ceaselessly; twist; eddy.

Origin of moil

1350-1400; Middle English moillen to make or get wet and muddy Middle French moillier Vulgar Latin *molliāre, derivative of Latin mollis soft

Examples for moil

There were people who were rich; people who did not have to toil and moil—people who lived in plenty.

Toil and moil every day from your first breath to your last, and what good does it bring you?

Blame them not, if for a time their limbs forget their toil and moil and their hearts their pangs and sorrows.

Why, then, toil and moil for mere vanities that we must leave behind us?

If Eugene is not a success amid the toil and moil of business, he shines out pre-eminently on such occasions as these.

But moil not too much under ground; for the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters lazy, in other things.

And why should men toil and moil when they had been the masters of the world?

I'll juist tak' a leuk at the grave, moil, gin ye'll hae an ee on the dog.

Ah, I do not wonder you love this morning hour, when beauty reigns supreme, before the toil and moil of the world has begun.

He had forgotten the calm and tranquil region that stretched beyond the moil and anguish of the strife for gain.

Word Value for moil
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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