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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of moil.

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Examples

  • For them she labored and toiled, and "moiled," as she used to say; and worked herself into oil to get them bread, and a pink ribbon for the baby's shoulder knot, and a navy cap, with "Hero" in gold letters for Jemmy.

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • And ripened on a dry slop of peanuts, cornflakes and newspaper shavings, moiled between the washer and dryer and shelves of dust-caked soda bottles, the pig that grew tall enough to sniff and lick the doorknob.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • And ripened on a dry slop of peanuts, cornflakes and newspaper shavings, moiled between the washer and dryer and shelves of dust-caked soda bottles, the pig that grew tall enough to sniff and lick the doorknob.

    KRISTIN NACA--YOU GO, GIRL! 2008

  • Though all his life long he had toiled and moiled, he only left his widow and son two hundred florins.

    The Yellow Fairy Book 2003

  • She patted at her hair and found it moiled all about her head.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • They put some cornmeal mush to boiling in creek water, supposing that its blandness might settle their moiled stomachs.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Believe for a truth, that the place wherein the people gathered together, were thus sulphured, hopurymated, moiled, and bepissed, was called

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Believe for a truth, that the place wherein the people gathered together, were thus sulphured, hopurymated, moiled, and bepissed, was called

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • We've moiled, we've toiled through mire and through clay

    The Jolly Plowboy (2) 1999

  • She patted at her hair and found it moiled all about her head.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

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