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moil
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synonyms: swink ???
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Definition:1) to toil2) to churn3) [Britain] to soil
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I have toiled and moyled to a good purpuss, for the advantage of Matt's family, if I can't safe as much owl as will make me an under petticoat.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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Like a plough-horse, I have always to be moiling and toiling.Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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“When he had the news from the village, he had the gates closed at once, and forbade anyone from the Castle to go down, for fear of being caught up in the moil.”
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A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze.
Ralph Ellison. The Invisible Man (1952)
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