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moiling

/moil/US // mɔɪl //UK // (mɔɪl) archaic, or dialect //

茂陵,茂林,茂名,茂陵区

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to work hard; drudge.
    • : to whirl or churn ceaselessly; twist; eddy.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. to wet or smear.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : hard work or drudgery.
    • : confusion, turmoil, or trouble.
    • : Glassmaking. a superfluous piece of glass formed during blowing and removed in the finishing operation.
    • : Mining. a short hand tool with a polygonal point, used for breaking or prying out rock.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Others toil and moil all their lives long—and the very dogs are not pitiful in our days, as they were in the days of Lazarus.

  • The auld moil was nane so weel furnished i' the heid, but bairnies and beasts were unco' fond o' 'im.

  • Would he come clean through the moil, winning honor and his place among men?

  • He has no taste for the toil and moil of money-getting,—a refined, studious, thoughtful young man.

  • Ginet-moils, gennet-moil, a kind of apple ripe before others.