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Definition of Moiled
1. moil [v] - See also: moil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moiled
Literary usage of Moiled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"moiled, bare, applied in Antrim and Down to a bare-looking building (Patterson,
Glossary), ... moiled."
2. A Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Herefordshire and Some of the by George Cornewall Lewis (1839)
"moiled, adj. dirty with wet mud; stuck in the mud. Also used in Gloucestershire
... A moiled sheep " is a sheep without horns. From Moel, Welsh, bare, bald. ..."
3. Specimens of English Dialects: I. Devonshire: an Exmoor Scolding and Courtship by William Hutton, Walter William Skeat (1879)
"I have toiled and moiled all Day,' ie I have had a very hard and toilsome Day's
Work, ... Mullad or moiled, 167, 377, closely rubb'd and tightly squeezed, ..."
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