moile

English

Alternative forms

• moil
• moyle

Etymology

From French mule (“a slipper”).

Pronunciation

• Homophones: mohel, moil
• Rhymes: -ɔɪl

Noun

moile (plural moiles)

1. A kind of high shoe worn in ancient times.
2. Alternative spelling of moil

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “moile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Yola

Etymology

Cognate with English turmoil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːɫ/
• Homophones: meale, mele, mile

Noun

moile

1. disorder
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 1-2:

     Ye state na dicke daie o'ye londe, na whilke be nar fash nar moile, albiet 'constitutional agitation,'

     The condition, this day, of the country, in which is neither tumult nor disorder, but that constitutional agitation,

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116