moil
[verb]
Synonyms: labor, drive, strain, strive, toil, tug, work, seethe, boil, bubble, churn, ferment, simmer, smolder, stir
[noun]
Synonyms: work, drudge, drudgery, grind, labor, plugging, slavery, slogging, toil, travail, commotion, bustle, clamor, hubbub, hurly-burly, lather, rowdydow, ruction, to-do, uproar

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moil noun².M17-E19.
[Perh. alt. of MULE noun¹ (in sense 'hybrid').]
(Cider produced from) a variety of apple.

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moil noun¹. [mɔɪl] Now arch. & dial. E17.
[from the verb.]
1. Toil, drudgery. Freq. in toil and moil. E17.

2. Mud, mire. E19.

3. Turmoil, confusion; trouble, vexation. M19.

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moil noun³. [mɔɪl] dial. M19.
[from Irish maol or Welsh moel lit. 'bald'. Cf. earlier MOILED, MOILEY, MULL noun³.]
A hornless cow or bull.

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moil verb. [mɔɪl] LME.
[Old French moillier wet, moisten, paddle in mud (mod. mouiller) from Proto-Romance, from Latin mollis soft.]
1. verb trans. Wet, moisten; soil, bedaub. Now arch. & dial. LME.
b. fig. Defile. rare. L16-M17.

2. verb intrans. Toil, work hard, drudge. Freq. in toil and moil. M16.

3. verb trans. Weary, fatigue; harass, worry. Chiefly refl. & in pass. Now rare or obsolete. M16.

4. verb intrans. & trans. Burrow (in). Long obsolete exc. dial. M16.

5. verb intrans. Move around in agitation or confusion; swirl, mill about. M20.

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