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moil | took |

As a noun moil

is .

As a verb took is

(take).

moil

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; from the Proto-Indo-European root 'mel-', 'soft'.

Verb

(en verb)
  • To toil, to work hard.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Moil not too much under ground.
  • * Dryden
    • Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
  • * {{quote-book, passage=There are strange things done in the midnight sun
          By the men who moil for gold;
    The Arctic trails have their secret tales
          That would make your blood run cold;
    The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
          But the queerest they ever did see
    Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
          I cremated Sam McGee.
    • , author=Robert W. Service , title=(The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses) , chapter=(The Cremation of Sam McGee) , year=1907}}
  • To churn continually.

    • Noun

  • Hard work.
  • Confusion, turmoil.
  • A spot; a defilement.
  • * (rfdate) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    • The moil of death upon them.
    Synonyms
    * (hard work) labour, labor; toil; work

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) 'mohel', ???? (ritual circumciser), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.

    Alternative forms

    * moile, moyle

    Noun

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

    • Synonyms

    * (excess glass) overblow (blow molding), scrap

    See also

    * gather * mold seam * pontil mark

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l) ----

    took

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (take)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}

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