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# moil

verb (moils, moiled, moiling); noun (no plural)

«moil» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

(old use) To moil is to work very hard, often in dirt or with tiring tasks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moil/#m1)

### In the lessons

a poor man or woman who works hard all life in old tales

### Examples

- He had toiled and moiled all his life. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moil/#x1)
- The farmer moiled in the fields from dawn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moil/#x2)
- Do not moil so hard; rest a while. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moil/#x3)
- After a day of moil, she was tired. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moil/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «moil» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moil/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«moil» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/moil.html) on Mova free.