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Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1603 1. a. requiring hard work b. industrious <moiling workers> 2. violently agitated ; turbulent • moilingly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Moil Moil, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Moiling.] [OE. moillen to wet, OF. moillier, muillier, F. mouller, fr. (assumed) LL. molliare, fr. L. mollis soft. See Mollify.] To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile. Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. --Spenser.