moil

name

1. Synonym of Ngan'gityemerri.

noun

Etymology: Of unclear origin; possibly from French meule or Hebrew מוהל (mohel, “ritual circumciser”), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.

1. 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.
2. 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).
3. The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molliō, *molliare, from mollis (“soft”).

1. To toil, to work hard.

   “Moil not too much underground, for the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters lazy in other things..”

   “Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.”

2. To churn continually; to swirl.

   “A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze.”

3. To defile or dirty.