[mɔɪl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- work hard
(e.g: men who moiled for gold)

- move around in confusion or agitation
(e.g: a crowd of men and women moiled in the smoky haze)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘moisten or bedaub’): from Old French moillier ‘paddle in mud, moisten’, based on Latin mollis ‘soft’. The sense ‘work’ dates from the mid 16th century, often in the phrase toil and moil

[mɔɪl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- hard work; drudgery
(e.g: this night his weekly moil is at an end)

- turmoil; confusion
(e.g: the moil of his intimate thoughts)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘moisten or bedaub’): from Old French moillier ‘paddle in mud, moisten’, based on Latin mollis ‘soft’. The sense ‘work’ dates from the mid 16th century, often in the phrase toil and moil