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moil

/mɔɪl/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Hard work.
  2. Confusion, turmoil.
  3. A spot; a defilement.
  4. To toil, to work hard.
  5. To churn continually; to swirl.
  6. To defile or dirty.
  7. 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.
  8. (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).
  9. The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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