moil

(noun, verb)

noun

1. Hard work.

2. Confusion, turmoil.

3. A spot; a defilement.

4. (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.

5. (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).

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

verb

1. work hard

Similar word(s): dig, drudge, grind, labor, labour, toil, travail

Definition categories: social, work

2. be agitated

Similar word(s): boil, churn, roil

Definition categories: motion, move

3. moisten or soil

- Her tears moiled the letter

Definition categories: change, smear