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▪ I. moiling, vbl. n.|ˈmɔɪlɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb moil in various senses.
c1560[Richardes] Misogonus ii. ii. 80 (Brandl) Or to what end shoulde we here spende Our dayes in vrksome moylinge? 1575Gamm. Gurton iv. iii. (Manly), Why, makes the knaue any moyling? 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 326 These men have..undertaken much fruitlesse labour in that lamentable moilyng of thinges which they have subverted. 1604T. Wright Passions vi. 327 What brought first hunger and thirst,..toyling and moyling into this world? 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 205 After a great deal of moyling, turmoyling, perfidiousness, and I know not what, he laid down his head and died. 1885–6Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxxvii. 2 Blesses them more in their resting than others in their moiling and toiling.
▪ II. moiling, ppl. a.|ˈmɔɪlɪŋ|
[f. moil v. + -ing2.]
That moils; labouring, toiling; fatiguing, toilsome.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 1198 Such moiling labor. 1608Merry Devil of Edmonton (1617) F 2, We haue had the moylingst night of it that euer we had in our liues. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables cccv. 266 Oh the Endless Misery of the Life I Lead! crys the Moiling Husbandman, to spend all my Days in Ploughing [etc.]. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 81 That moyling Swain who ploughs the fertile clod, Looks rarely to his Benefactor God. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lxxi, I am an abject slave, and a toiling, moiling..potter's wessel. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Miling, dirty and laborious—‘A milin' job’. 1897Daily News 14 July 7/3 A good sprinkling of real moiling workers in their best.
Hence ˈmoilingly adv., in a moiling manner.
1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 7 He runnes and moylingly trots vp and downe. |