moil

Meanings

1. To toil, to work hard.
2. To churn continually; to swirl.
3. To defile or dirty.

1. Hard work.
2. Confusion, turmoil.
3. A spot; a defilement.

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.

1. Synonym of Ngan'gityemerri.

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”).