[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/moil.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / moil

[← M](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/M/)

# moil

«moil» in Mova's school dictionary: **to work very hard, often in dirt or with tiring tasks** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «moil» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moil/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.