Meaning of Moil | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Hard work.
   countable, uncountable
2. 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.
   countable, uncountable
3. Synonym of Ngan'gityemerri.
4. Confusion, turmoil.
   countable, uncountable
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).
   countable, uncountable
6. A spot; a defilement.
   countable, uncountable
7. The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I finally decided, my heart was really in my singing rather than in the drab, hardy soul- searing toil and moil of a collier's existence.”

“Croft no longer saw anything clearly; he could not have said at that moment where his hands ended and the machine gun began; he was lost in a vast moil of noise out of which individual screams and shouts etched in his mind for an instant.”

“You'd suppose A finished generation, dead of plague, Swept outward from their graves into the sun, The moil of death upon them.”

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