n. An unwanted rim of glass left after blow molding.
v. To toil, to work hard.
v. To churn continually.
n. Hard work.
n. Confusion, turmoil.
n. A spot; a defilement.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
v. To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
verb-intransitive. To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
n. A spot; a defilement.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To wet; moisten.
To soil; dirty; daub.
To fatigue by labor; weary.
To soil one's self; wallow in dirt.
To drudge; labor; toil.
n. Defilement.
n. Labor; drudgery.
n. A mule.
n. A kind of high shoe.
n. In glass-making, the metallic oxid adhering to the glass which is broken from the end of the blowpipe.
n. A tool occasionally used by miners in certain districts instead of a pick when accurate cutting is to be done.
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v. moisten or soil
v. be agitated
v. work hard
Word Usage
"Un Lun Dun is set, for the most part, in an alternate London, a place where all the "moil" of the real London goes, the moil being everything that's broken, discarded, or obsolete."