moil

Meanings

Verb

• To toil, to work hard.
• To churn continually; to swirl.
• To defile or dirty.

Noun

• Hard work.
• Confusion, turmoil.
• A spot; a defilement.
• 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.
• 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).
• The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

Related

Similar words

• labour, labor; toil; work
• overblow (blow molding), scrap

Origin

• From Middle English mollen ("to soften by wetting"), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molliō, from mollis.
• Of unclear origin; possibly from French meule or Hebrew מוהל, referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.